In re Bryan L. CA2/8

FACTS

Bryan, born in 1997, has been a ward of the juvenile court under section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code since 2010. On December 6, 2010, he admitted to battery on a school employee in violation of Penal Code section 243.6. Bryan was seen loitering outside the school campus after being suspended. When he was confronted by the school safety officer, Bryan punched her and wrestled with her. He was placed home on probation. On May 3, 2012, a second petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 was sustained against him for battery on a school employee. He threw a book at his teacher’s face after the teacher suspended him for disrupting the class. On October 17, 2012, a third Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 petition was filed against Bryan for second degree robbery (Pen. Code, § 211). On October 15, 2012, he forcibly took money from his mother. At the adjudication hearing on November 7, 2012, Bryan’s mother testified that she made a “mistake.” Bryan asked her to give him money to buy a sweatshirt for school. When she told him she would not give him the money until he behaved better, he snatched her wallet from her hands. She discovered $20 missing…