In re G.J. CA4/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Removal—June 2012

On June 23, 2012, the San Bernardino County Children and Family Services

(CFS) received an emergency response referral from the San Bernardino Police

Department. The child’s mother had found belt marks on the four-year-old child’s back

after picking him up from father for her weekly visit. The child told the responding

social worker that father had hit him on the back with a belt, and the social worker found

five belt marks on the child’s back. The child told the social worker that father often gets

mad and hits him with a belt and with a stick and “socks me in the belly.” The child said

that father drinks a lot of beers and is always mad. The child stated he did not want to

return to father’s home. The maternal aunt told the social worker that she had custody of

some of mother’s other children because of mother’s history of drug use, and that she had

1 All section references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 reported father several times after seeing marks on the child. Father denied ever having

spanked the child and was very angry. He stated mother was trying to frame him. The

child was…