In Re Maria R.

Maria appeals from an order of the juvenile court finding her to be a person coming within the provisions of section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and directing that she be taken from her mother’s home and suitably placed. For the reasons hereinafter set forth, we reverse the order.

The minor was, at the times herein involved, a girl of the age of 16. She had two children, the one herein involved being Rosa, an infant of the age of eight months. Maria and her two children lived with Maria’s mother and, because Maria was still in school, much of the responsibility for the care of the children fell on the mother. On February 10, 1976, the mother noticed that Rosa was ill and Maria and her mother took the baby to their family doctor. The doctor said that there was nothing wrong with Rosa and sent them home. The next day, noticing continued symptoms, including bloody stools, the two women took Rosa to a hospital. The history of Rosa, given by Maria at the time of admittance, included the information that the baby had been given an aspirin tablet every four hours for about a week previous and that the baby, by joint decision of Maria and her mother, had been taken…