Stacy K. v. Superior Court CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Father‟s dependent children are a daughter, S., now age 11; two sons, J., age four and JaC., age three; and a second daughter, H., age 22 months. Although the family had a prior history with DCFS,2 in this instance the children were detained in Riverside County because the family was living there. On June 9, 2011, there was a domestic dispute at the family home. Father was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold (§ 5150) after he threatened to kill himself and the children. Father was admitted to the hospital on June 10, 2011, after hospital personnel concluded he could not safely be managed at a lower level of care. During his hospital stay, father was “agitated, yelling, cursing and posturing to fight with hospital personnel.” Father said that he “still felt his mood changing and didn‟t want to get violent.” He was diagnosed as bi-polar and manic. At the hospital, father was prescribed four medications, but on discharge he refused medication and further therapy.

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

In In re S.K. (June 8, 2009, B211705) [nonpub. opn.], Division Five of…