LISmama810
Admin - CPS Technician
This is kind of a complicated issue--more complicated than I could express in the title
Here's the article: http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a...DL.w=&DL.d=10&DQ=sectionId%3A5217&DPS=0&DPL=3
(yikes, hopefully that link works)
Anyway, an unrestrained 18-month-old was killed in a crash, and the state took the other two children into custody.
California law allows surviving children to be taken if another child died due to neglect. The father in this case sued, arguing that the neglect needed to be criminal neglect, but a court upheld the agency's decision.
Other factors include the fact (?) that the child who died had hurt her arm, and the dad had lent his car (with her car seat) to someone, so she was sitting on her aunt's lap on the way to the hospital. That's when they got hit.
Also, CPS later received a tip that the other children were being neglected and found that the children indeed were not receiving proper care. So it's not like the car seat was the only issue.
Here's the article: http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a...DL.w=&DL.d=10&DQ=sectionId%3A5217&DPS=0&DPL=3
(yikes, hopefully that link works)
Anyway, an unrestrained 18-month-old was killed in a crash, and the state took the other two children into custody.
California law allows surviving children to be taken if another child died due to neglect. The father in this case sued, arguing that the neglect needed to be criminal neglect, but a court upheld the agency's decision.
Other factors include the fact (?) that the child who died had hurt her arm, and the dad had lent his car (with her car seat) to someone, so she was sitting on her aunt's lap on the way to the hospital. That's when they got hit.
Also, CPS later received a tip that the other children were being neglected and found that the children indeed were not receiving proper care. So it's not like the car seat was the only issue.