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FACTS

Petition, Detention Report, and Detention Hearing On December 11, 2013, Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) filed a section 300 juvenile dependency petition pertaining to baby and sister. The petition alleged baby was brought to the hospital on December 8 by her parents as a result of what SSA alternately characterized as seizures or convulsions. Upon baby’s admittance, a variety of injuries to baby were observed. The injuries included “a skull fracture extending from the right side of her head all the way to the back of the child’s skull, a she[a]ring injury to the frontal lobe of the brain, chronic and acute bilateral subdural bleeding on the brain, bruising behind the right ear, old and new retinal hemorrhages, two to three greenish bite marks on her right thigh, possible bite marks on her right calf, and bruising on the top of both feet.” The injuries could only be explained by “the unreasonable or neglectful acts or omissions of” the parents, who were the sole caretakers of baby. According to the petition, parents waited approximately 20 hours to take baby to the hospital after observing the first of six to seven convulsions. The

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