In Re State in the Interest of Valdez

CALLISTER, Chief Justice:

Gavino Joe Valdez appeals from an order of the Juvenile Court, wherein his two minor children were adjudged “dependent” and placed in the temporary custody of the Utah State Division of Family Services for placement in a foster home.

Mr. Valdez was accused of killing his former wife, the mother of the children here involved, and was incarcerated in the Weber County Jail, without bail, on a charge of first degree murder. At the time of the mother’s death, a maternal aunt, Patricia Ann Gonzales, and her husband, Vincent, took the children to their home where they have…