A Toronto woman was granted bail after being arrested in connection to the alleged abuse of her mother-in-law.
Qiyun Tan, 28, was freed on $100,000 bail on Thursday.
Tan and her husband were accused in late February of forcing her husband's elderly mother to live in a freezing garage.
Kwong Yan, 43, is expected to have his bail review next Friday. The pair was initially denied bail shortly after their arrest.
Tan had been charged with failing to provide the necessities of life and criminal negligence causing bodily harm after police found a 68-year-old woman unconscious and freezing in a garage attached to their Scarborough home.
Police allege that the woman had been forced to live in the garage for months with little more than a thin mattress, a soiled port-o-potty and bucket of water for bathing.
Police say the garage was not adequately heated, leaving the woman to suffer through several months of bitter winter weather, which resulted in a mild stroke, pneumonia and frost bite to her arm, fingers and toes.
She had been declared legally incompetent and placed under her son's care in the fall of 2010.
The couple's six-year-old daughter remains at their family home in the care of a family member.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Tamara Cherry
