Title: Wicomico Co. Social Services v. B.A. (Order)

State: maryland

Issuer: Maryland Supreme Court

Document:

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SOCIAL SERVICES

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COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF * In the
. Court of Appeals
* of Maryland
. No. 46
. Septenber Term, 2014
ORDER

case having been argued before this Court on June 3,

is this 26 day of August, 2015,

ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that

supplemental ‘briefing and reargument be scheduled on the

following additional issues set forth below:

1. In an ongoing instructor-student relationship,
can “temporary care or custody or responsibility for
supervision of a child" pursuant to Fl § 5-701(x) (1) be
established through remote electronic communications?

2. Can “temporary care" pursuant to FL § 5-701 (x) (1) be
established without the mutual consent, expressed or
implied, of the one legally charged with the care of
the child and of the one purportedly assuming the
“temporary care?"

3. Does an instructor who has temporary care or
responsibility for a child on a repeated, ongoing
basis, commit child abuse within the meaning of

FL § 5-701 by sexually explicit communications made via
texts, telephone calls or other electronic means to the
child, provided there exists a significant connection
between the abusive conduct and the in-person care or
responsibility?

 

and it is further
ORDERED, that the petitioner's supplemental brief shall
be filed on or before October 2, 2015, and the respondent’s
supplemental brief shall be filed on or before November 2, 2015,

and it is further

ORDERED, that the case shall be set for reargument on

December 3, 2015.

‘8! Mary Ellen Barbera
Thief Judge