State ex rel. Gray

STOULIG, Judge.

Althea Gray Green has appealed a judgment under which the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court assumed protective custody of her nine-year-old daughter, Denise Gray, and then awarded temporary custody to the child’s grandmother, Mrs. Marjorie Gray. The judge based this decree on a finding that Mrs. Green neglected her child; therefore, the court had jurisdiction to act under circumstances described in R.S. 13:1570(A)(1) that confers this authority.

We reverse. The record does not contain sufficient evidence to support a conclusion that Althea Gray Green neglected her child Denise.…