People v. Barbara M.

The State appeals the dismissal of its petitions for adjudication of wardship of three-year-old B.M. and his 11-year-old-sister L.B. The juvenile court conducted a temporary custody hearing on petitions to adjudicate B.M. and L.B. wards of the court due to parental neglect. At the hearing, Beverly Jordan, investigator from the Division of Child Protection of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), testified that around noon on September 13, 1992, B.M.’s parents brought their son to Ravenswood Hospital. B.M. had a knife wound to his stomach and his “guts were hanging…