In re J.J. CA3

BACKGROUND

A. The Transfer of Jurisdiction from Dependency and J.J.’s Treatment Out of State On February 14, 2019, the People filed a juvenile wardship petition (§ 602) alleging that on or about February 12, 2019, J.J. committed two counts of misdemeanor battery (Pen. Code, § 242). J.J. and another minor pushed staff at the Children’s Receiving Home, and J.J. punched a peer in the face. The juvenile court detained him and ordered an assessment to determine whether J.J. should be treated as a dependent or a ward of the court. (§ 241.1.) The section 241.1 report recommended a dependency petition, in light of the minor’s history of severe physical abuse and childhood trauma, resulting in maladaptive coping skills making him impulsive and quick to react. This was J.J.’s first wardship petition, although he had been accused of touching female students inappropriately and threatening to take another student’s “virginity for his birthday” in Kansas in 2017. J.J. had been living with his father in Kansas for several years but ran away when visiting his mother in Sacramento in the summer of 2018 and was unsupervised in Monterey, California, until January 2019. J.J. asked not to return…