Quebec slow to make changes to child protection system after Granby girl’s 2019 killing [Video]

It’s been five years since a seven year-old girl was killed by her stepmother in Granby, after months of abuse, in the presence of her father who never intervened.

The case put Quebec’s youth protection system under the microscope. A damning report was supposed to bring about changes but little has changed since.

The child will forever be remembered as the Granby girl. She died in her home after suffocating while wrapped head-to-toe in plastic cellophane that her step-mother used to prevent the child from running away.

Her father was just granted statutory release from prison after serving two-thirds of his three-and-a-half year sentence for forcible confinement. He will be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence in the community under certain conditions as of May 7. His sentence ends on July 6, 2025.

The girl’s relatives are outraged by his early release.

“This little girl is not among us, and she lost her life. And that’s the price that the father paid. So it’s unfortunate. There’s …