Adam a. v. Superior Court CA4/3
Petitioner Adam A. is the innocent father in this family tragedy. In the spring of 2015, his wife Meghan took a photo of their four-year-old daughter’s vagina and sent it to a Marine with whom she had developed a secret online relationship. Adam and Meghan are now separated, but they were still together in October 2015, when she was arrested. A juvenile dependency petition was filed in early November 2015. Eighteen months later, Adam had complied with his reunification plan, which obviously included a lot of counseling for the sexual exploitation of their daughter, the eldest of three young children, including a newborn son born in September 2015.The juvenile dependency system is essentially structured as a two-stage process: Reunification and permanency planning. At the 18-month review hearing the burden is on SSA to prove detriment. The legislative goal remains the preservation of the parent-child relationship, not a search for excuses for its destruction.
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