M.S. v. Riverside County Department of Public Social Services

Opinion

McKINSTER, J.

M.S., plaintiff and appellant, is the father of A.S., the subject of a Welfare and Institutions Code section 3001 petition that Riverside County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) filed on August 4, 2000, after A.S.’s mother claimed that M.S. (hereafter father) had physically abused her and then eight-month-old A.S.

Father made admissions that he had hit A.S. to get her to stop crying, but not hard enough to cause injury. He also admitted to tying the baby’s arms down to keep her from putting her hands in her mouth. At the combined jurisdiction and disposition…