Maricyl Palisoc /Photo: Facebook

Disabled parents fight to keep newborn at home
Social workers demand child receive 24-hour care
CBC News Posted: May 1, 2012 5:41 PM ET Last Updated: May 2, 2012 8:41 AM ET

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A disabled couple in Mississauga are fighting to keep their newborn son after social workers threatened to take the boy away unless he receives round-the-clock care from an “able-bodied attendant.”

Maricyl Palisoc and her partner, Charles Wilton, are the parents of a healthy month-old baby boy named William. Both parents have cerebral palsy, a disorder that limits their motor skills and slurs their speech, but has no effect on their cognitive abilities.

Gerard Brand, 45, has been relieved from duty with pay after being charged with unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust. (CBC)

Calgary detective charged in alleged privacy breach
CBC News Posted: May 2, 2012 7:13 PM MT Last Updated: May 2, 2012 9:56 PM MT
Gerard Brand, 45, has been relieved from duty with pay after being charged with unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust. (CBC)

A 45-year-old Calgary police detective has been charged with unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust.

Police spokesman Kevin Brookwell said a financial institution allegedly approached the officer to get contact information for about 10 people who owed the business money.

The officer then allegedly accessed the police database between March 2010 and August 2011 and was given money for the supplying name, address and phone numbers.