In re C.G. CA4/2

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On June 11, 2024, personnel from plaintiff and respondent, the San Bernardino

County Children and Family Services (the department), received an immediate response

referral alleging physical abuse and general neglect of minor by parents.2 Parents

brought minor to the hospital with a leg injury. Parents reported that minor had fallen

over while placed in a car seat on the couch. The physician reported that minor’s injuries

were inconsistent with parents’ story.

An X-ray of minor’s leg reflected minor had “an acute obliquely oriented laterally

displaced fracture on the right distal femur.” A nurse reported that a common cause for

such a fracture would involve “‘somebody breaking it, not many things babies can do to

break their femur, it would have to be a high fall or traumatic use of force.’”

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Intuitions Code unless otherwise stated.

2 Father was 22 years old at the time of the referral; mother was 21 years old.

2 The responding officer reported that parents said minor “‘fell a three-foot fall’”;

they blamed the injury on the massage therapist they called to treat minor.3 The…