K.C. v. Jefferson County Department of Human Resources

THOMAS, Judge.

In October 2008, the Jefferson County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”) filed dependency petitions regarding J.C., I.C., S.P., and Z.P., the children of K.C. (“the mother”). 1 The children had been removed from the mother’s home after the mother’s paramour, Sa.R. (“the paramour”), with whom the mother and the children lived, was involved in a physical altercation with J.C. J.C. reported that the paramour had attempted to “whip” him and that, when J.C. fought the paramour off, the paramour placed his hands around J.C.’s throat. The other children reported that the paramour…