In Re RW
Opinion
Opinion
No appearance for Minor.
A.W. (Mother) is the mother of R.W., who was taken into protective custody at the age of nine in May 2001. Mother appeals from the juvenile court order made on July 17, 2008, limiting Mother's right to make educational decisions for R.W. and the order consenting to the implementation of an individualized education plan (IEP) [1] recommendation to place R.W. at the Cathedral Home in Laramie, Wyoming. We conclude the orders were not an abuse of the juvenile court's discretion and therefore affirm.
When the juvenile court made the order limiting parents' educational rights, R.W. was 16 years old and had been in the dependency system for over seven years. R.W. and her three siblings were removed from the parents' custody in May 2001 based on charges both Mother and R.W.'s stepfather physically and emotionally abused them. (R.W.'s father is not a party to the appeal and his whereabouts are unknown.) In May 2001, the juvenile court ordered the children detained and, in September 2001, declared them dependent children of the court under Welfare and Institutions Code section 360, subdivision (d).