In re Maya L.
Annotate this CaseMother was arrested for child endangerment after her four-year old daughter, Maya, fell from the trunk of a moving vehicle. Maya scraped her knee, but was otherwise uninjured. The incident was witnessed by a police officer and was part of an altercation between mother and her sister. Mother, apparently intoxicated, also got into an altercation with arresting officer. Maya was subsequently declared a dependent child of the court pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 3001 and placed in the custody of her father. At the six-month review hearing, the trial court terminated jurisdiction and entered a family law order providing father physical and legal custody of Maya. The court of appeal affirmed, noting mother’s previous problems with alcohol, that Maya told the social worker she wanted to continue living with her father and stepmother, mother’s denial of having any problem with alcohol, her failure to accept responsibility for her actions and her inability to understand how her actions had caused her child to be detained from her, and the erratic behavior of mother’s family members.
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