In re E.S. CA1/1

DISCUSSION

On January 13, 2014, the Solano County District Attorney filed a wardship petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602, subdivision (a), alleging four counts, two arising out of an incident occurring on January 8, 2014, and two arising out of an incident on November 11, 2013.2 A contested jurisdictional and disposition hearing was held on April 28, 2014. The January 2014 incident occurred in E.S.’s math classroom at the end of the day. In response to a classmate, K.J., telling him what she had just said to another classmate “didn’t concern” him so “why did [he] want to know,” E.S. pulled a knife from his pocket, opened it, and pointed it at K.J.’s stomach. K.J. had been out of her seat, and when she sat down, E.S. leaned across his desk and held the blade six to eight inches from her neck. When K.J. told him to “[g]et the knife out of my face,” he did so and put it in his pocket, but then pulled it out again and held it closer to her neck. Fearing E.S. would cut her, K.J. told him what she had said to the other student. K.J. did not tell the teacher, fearing E.S. would try to cut her, but did tell a cousin. The following day she also told another cousin,…