In re L.Z.

DISSENTING OPINION BY

PANELLA, J.

I respectfully dissent from the decision of my distinguished colleagues in the Majority. My discussion will be restricted to the Majority’s reversal of the trial court’s finding that Mother, L.F., should be identified as a perpetrator of abuse. I believe sufficient evidence exists to list Mother, who was the primary caretaker, as a perpetrator of the brutal child abuse inflicted upon L.Z.

Instead of viewing each of Child’s injuries in isolation to ascertain whether he suffered a “serious physical injury” necessary to establish child abuse, I would focus on the…