T.A.
Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. T.A.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Rothschild, J.
After a combined jurisdictional and dispositional hearing the juvenile court found jurisdiction over Ashly F. and her sister Cristina F. under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (a), (b) and (j) 1 and ordered the children removed from their home. T.A. (Mother) appeals only the dispositional order. We conclude the evidence does not support the court’s findings that the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services made reasonable efforts to prevent the children’s removal and that there were no reasonable means to protect the children other than removing them from their home. Accordingly, we reverse the dispositional order and remand the cause to the juvenile court for further proceedings in accordance with law.
FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW
The family came to the attention of the Los Angeles County Department Of Children and Family Services (DCFS) when a DCFS worker and a police officer came to the family home in response to a report of suspected child abuse.
*806 P.F., the half sister of Ashly and Cristina, told the worker that Mother had beaten her for stealing a wallet at church. According to P.F., Mother used an extension cord to…