Santa Clara County Department of Family & Children's Services v. C.B.

Opinion

PREMO, Acting P. J.

Appellant C.B. (mother) appeals from orders of the juvenile court removing seven-year-old D.C. from mother’s custody and ordering the child placed with her father. Mother contends that there was no substantial evidence to support the juvenile court’s jurisdictional finding that mother subjected D.C. to an act of cruelty because there was no evidence that mother intended to harm D.C. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 300, subd. (i).)1 We conclude that jurisdiction under the direct-infliction prong of section 300, subdivision (i) does not require a finding that the parent…