In re M.C. CA2/8

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

1. Detention on Initial Petition Eleven-year-old M.C. was removed from his mother in May 2013 after a referral alleged physical abuse by mother. M.C. reported that mother punched and kicked him and pushed his head against a refrigerator.2 The social worker with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) interviewed maternal grandmother and learned that mother, father, and M.C. had been living with maternal grandmother for the past five months, though father worked “all the time and [was] not home.” M.C. had a black eye and a sore rib from mother’s punching and kicking him. He also showed the social worker bruises on his legs from when mother hit him with an extension cord. Maternal grandmother saw mother hit M.C. and told him to run. She also told mother to stop or maternal grandmother would call the police. M.C. had seen mother hit father and seen mother threaten to hit maternal grandmother. M.C. thought both he and mother had “anger issues,” and he wanted them to get counseling. M.C. had a lengthy record of disciplinary issues at school for bullying and harassing other students. Maternal grandmother was willing to provide care…