Lesson Learned...?

[All the little girl's injuries were "acute ... and not likely to be expected from regular play or care, giving (sic) that the child would have experienced significant pain at the time of each injury and, with respect to fractures, would have demonstrated distress by screaming or crying".
Documents filed in court quoting a doctor on the Child Protection Team at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

This was a clear case of child abuse.  A two-year-old little girl so physically abused that she was left with two very serious lacerations to her liver, unusual bruising, and four fractured ribs on her right side.  The examining doctors ascertained quickly enough that the extent of the child's injuries were not commensurate with child play of a rough nature, nor simple accidents; they were inflicted.

And there were three suspects that police took into consideration when they and the Children's Aid Society were brought into the picture, alerted by health authorities.  Suspicion always falls upon those adults closest to a child; mother and father.  And in this particular case suspicion fell also on a day-care operator.

The day-care operator was a woman who had in her care at her home no fewer than eight children.  Six of the children were under the age of two.  In the category of truly difficult tasks, looking to the well-being and complex needs of that number of very young children would be excessive and hugely demanding, a challenge for anyone, however efficient and/or capable.

Following their own investigation into the day care operation, the Children's Aid Society was left with the "clear and strong impression that all was not well at the daycare."  The CAS carefully monitored the parents' activities and interchanges with the child, once the little girl was recovered after her emergency surgery.

The parents have agreed to voluntary supervision, where they can receive surprise visits by child-protection workers.  Since the day the mother was called by the day-care operator to pick up her child because she seemed unwell, and rushed her to hospital, the child has not suffered any injuries.  The mother explained that the child seemed reluctant to be left at the day-care prior to the event.

The child is now "very happy and relaxed with both parents", said to be "thriving" in their care, as far as the CAS is concerned.  And the parents have long since been cleared as suspects in the child's brutal beating that left her in that emergency-health situation that necessitated immediate surgery back in June.

And since the child-welfare agency has ruled out the possibility that the child's parents posed a threat to the little girl's welfare, that it was clear they were loving and careful parents, that leaves the one remaining suspect, the daycare operator. 

Police have decided to close the case without laying criminal charges.  Claiming that they have found only what could be termed a "circumstantial" case; insubstantive evidence to lay charges.

A rational mind of caring parents might be thought of as capable of determining that eight young children, six of whom are under two years of age are far too many for any single individual to look after.  Perhaps, in the final analysis, this lack of discernment leading to the health and welfare of young children is the true culprit in the matter.

So that, despite the best of intentions, they are in reality, oblivious, not well-enough intended, and there are still three suspects remaining in the now-closed investigation.