In re X.G. CA4/2

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On June 24, 2023, personnel from plaintiff and respondent, the San Bernardino

County Children and Family Services (the department), received a referral alleging that

mother had struck minor with an extension cord, pushed him into a wall, and threw him

onto the ground leaving welts and bruises on his legs and back. Officers arrested mother

for willful harm to a child under circumstances likely to produce great bodily injury. She

admitted to an officer that she hit minor with an extension cord. The officer observed

welts and bruises on minor’s body.

Mother and minor lived with the maternal grandmother. The social worker

interviewed the maternal aunt, who said she witnessed most of the incident. The

maternal aunt said she was sleeping but awoke to the sounds of mother yelling at minor.

She entered mother’s room and saw mother hitting minor with a speaker wire causing

minor to cry out in pain. The maternal aunt then saw mother push minor into a wall

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

2 The court also terminated mother’s parental rights as to minor 2 in case No. J299039. However, mother expressly…