'Baby Joseph' Returns to Canada after Surgery

The baby who's made headlines the world over has left the U.S. hospital that performed an operation that Canadian doctors said would kill him.

A Canadian infant with a fatal neurological disorder has left a hospital in the U.S. after receiving a tracheotomy so that he may die surrounded by his parents in Ontario. Joseph Maraachli was flown to a Missouri hospital last month for the tracheotomy, which an Ontario hospital refused to perform because it figured the child would die as soon as he was taken off a ventilator for the procedure. His parents sought the surgery because they figured it would prevent Joseph from choking to death and instead let him pass away relatively painlessly. The one-year-old was taken to a hospital upon landing in Canada, and should be taken to his Windsor, Ont., home before the day is out.