- Published ruling: San Bernardino Superior Judge Steven Mapes’s bypass of reunification services affirmed in part in In re T.R. (J291308, J291312/E079291)
- Radell R. appealed from a decision that denied him reunification services with his two daughters. His daughters had been removed from him due to serious physical harm, failure to protect, sexual abuse and abuse of a sibling. The San Bernardino County Children and Family Services claimed that Radell and the mother had engaged in domestic violence and used corporal punishment on the girls, and that the mother had poured alcohol on the vagina of one of her daughters. The Court of Appeal found that the judge had not made a required finding that Radell’s