A Winnipeg family wants answers after their one-month-old baby died while in the care of Child and Family Services last month.

CTV News cannot identify the family due to privacy provisions in the Child and Family Services Act.

The mother said she had a supervised visit with baby Matias at a CFS office on the afternoon of March 27 and when she left the baby he was perfectly healthy.

She said Matias left the office in a car to be returned to the foster family where he was staying but he never arrived.

The family said they have been told Matias went into medical distress in the car and was later pronounced dead at St. Boniface Hospital.

“I don’t even know if the baby was taken to hospital by ambulance. I don’t even know if those people have CPR and they tried to revive the baby,” said the child’s uncle, “We don’t know anything. We need some answers and we have many questions.”

The family initially hired a lawyer to try and regain custody of Matias.

Born on February 24, the child was apprehended two days later by CFS.

The family said CFS expressed concerns about the mother’s ability to raise the child.

The family said they offered to work with CFS and said the baby’s grandmother, two uncles and an aunt were all prepared to help raise the baby.

The family’s lawyer said he has been in contact with CFS and the St. Boniface Hospital to try and determine exactly what happened the day Matias died.

“I have not been provided with sufficient details to date,” said Edward Rice, “But I have learned that the child was in fact apprehended and that the child died approximately five weeks later while in care.”

Members of the family have been in Canada for six years after immigrating from Colombia.

The baby’s mother previously lived in Canada but returned to Colombia to be with her husband who has not been able to join the family yet due to immigration issues.

Upon learning she was pregnant, the mother said she and her husband agreed she should return to Canada to have the baby.

“It’s good to stay in Canada,” she said, “Because in Colombia it’s very dangerous.”

She said the frustration of not knowing what happened to Matias compounds her grief.

“Why did they take my baby away? And why has my baby died?” she asked.

CTV News reached out to CFS and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority with questions about what happened to Matias.

Both organizations said due to privacy legislation they could not comment on specific cases.