State ex rel. Juvenile Department v. Walen

Mother challenges a juvenile court order committing her child to the legal custody of Children’s Services Division (CSD). She contends that the court erred in finding jurisdiction, in awarding custody to CSD and in refusing to allow mother’s witnesses to testify at the dispositional hearing.

The child in this case was born in May, 1987, in a ditch along a highway between Eugene and Cougar Hot Springs. When paramedics arrived at the scene, they found mother and child in the back of a van, wrapped in a sheet. Mother did not want the assistance of the paramedics and would not allow them to…