Office of the Guardian ad Litem ex rel. S.C. v. Anderson

OPINION

WILKINS, Presiding Judge:

¶ 1 This opinion supplements our order of June 11, 1999 in which we granted Petitioner’s request for extraordinary writ compelling Respondent to hold a final adjudication hearing pursuant to Utah Code Ann. § 78-3a-308 (Supp.1999), on or before June 21, 1999.1

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 On April 19, 1999, the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) took S.C., a nine-year-old girl, into protective custody after she reported to school officials that she was being abused by her father’s live-in girlfriend. On April 21, 1999, a shelter hearing was held at which the court…