In Re James Wv
Opinion
Opinion
Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc., Law Office of Timothy Martella, Hermosa Beach, Eliot Lee Grossman, South Pasadena, Trane Martin Hunter, Los Angeles, and Roxanna Alavi, for Deshawn W.
Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc., Law Office of Barry Allen Herzog, Los Angeles, Ellen L. Bacon and Dennis R. Smeal, for Real Party in Interest James W. IV.
KLEIN, P.J.
The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) seeks writ review of an order denying its petition to modify an order of the juvenile court placing three-month-old James W. V in the care of his paternal grandmother. We grant the writ petition and issue a writ of mandate directing the juvenile court to vacate the order placing James W. V in the care of paternal grandmother.
On the afternoon of September 7, 2007, City of Hawthorne police officers found two-year-old Kayla S. on the floor of her home with her step-father, James W. IV, and his infant son, James W.V. Kayla S. was taken to a hospital where she was determined to be in full cardiac arrest with numerous internal injuries and severe brain injury consistent with shaken baby syndrome. The medical director of the ICU indicated the injuries appeared to have been…