WINNIPEG–A second Manitoba social worker told a child custody hearing Tuesday that a girl removed from her parents' care after she showed up at school with racist symbols drawn on her body was raised to believe that non-white people should be killed.

But the mother accused child welfare officials of feeding controversial responses to her daughter in order to remove her from the family home.

"I think my daughter was either force-fed to say these things ... or she was coaxed, maybe into saying them, if she did in fact say them," the woman, who now lives in another province, said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press.

"I'm looking at these things that are being said, and I think, 'no, my daughter would never say that."'

Manitoba Child and Family Services removed the girl and her younger brother from the family home last year after the girl showed up at her elementary school with white supremacist symbols and slogans drawn on her skin in permanent marker.

No one involved in the case can be identified under Manitoba law.

Two social workers have testified this week the girl told them in separate interviews that her mother made the drawings.

They have also testified that the girl talked about being raised in a hate-filled home where violent racist videos were displayed, where the parents discussed killing minorities, and where drugs were used frequently.

The social workers have also said the girl casually and frequently used racial epithets, and talked calmly about a method for killing black people.

The mother, however, paints a very different picture. She taught her children to be proud of their heritage but not to hate others, she said.

"That's not something we ever discussed in the home. That's not something we ever preached to our children," the woman said.

The violent videos were only historical TV programs about the Second World War, she said. The drug use is also untrue, according to the mother.

"We have a very hard stance against drug use. It's not a white thing to do."

The mother also denies drawing multiple racial symbols on her daughter. She drew only one small symbol to demonstrate racial pride, she said, and has no idea who drew white supremacist slogans and other material that were found on her daughter's body and captured on photographs entered as evidence in the court case.

"We have been asking to see these photos. I'm wondering where they actually came from."

It's not just social workers who are behind the accusations. According to the worker who testified Tuesday, relatives of the couple have said the two were skinheads who met on a racist website. The couple at one point travelled to Brandon, Man., where one relative believed they were trying to set up a white supremacist group, the social worker said.

It's not yet clear whether those relatives will testify in the case.

The mother does not have a lawyer and plans on attending court next month when the case resumes. The father has not yet spoken about the case either in interviews or in court. He has filed an affidavit showing he plans to argue he has a constitutional right to raise his children according to his beliefs.

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The racism concern is not the sole reason cited by child welfare officials for seizing the children. The parents are also accused of neglecting the kids' emotional and education needs, and being physically violent with each other.

The father, in his affidavit, denies any wrongdoing and says the two were "excellent" parents.