In re M.R. CA4/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Detention

On September 28, 2012, San Bernardino County Children and Family Services

(CFS) filed a Welfare & Institutions Code, section 3001 petition for each of the children

alleging as to mother that she allowed her boyfriend to hit Mi.R. on the back of the legs

with a belt, which caused bruising, and that she was arrested on September 26, 2012, for

inflicting corporal punishment on a child (Pen. Code, § 273d), which made it impossible

for her to care for the children.

At the detention hearing held on October 1, 2012, the juvenile court ordered the

children removed from mother, and from their father, who resided in Texas, and detained

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare & Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 with the maternal grandmother.2 This placement was appropriate for the children

because they had lived “all of their lives” with the maternal grandmother, except for the

ten months immediately prior to the removal. The court ordered mother to have one two-

hour supervised visit with the children each week upon her release from custody. The

court ordered that mother’s boyfriend have no contact with the…