Court Opinion

ID: 9802317
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 09:03:25.409452+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:00:30.986879
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Colleen Conway Cooney, Judge,
dissenting.
{¶ 35} I respectfully dissent. I would affirm the trial court’s judgment because any “permission” D.N. received from her mother to stay in the home had been revoked. At that moment, D.N. had a duty to retreat to the foster home at Berea Children’s Home. She should have left her mother’s home when asked or threatened and sought another means of retrieving her personal belongings and clothing.
{¶ 36} Although I do not condone the mother’s threatening D.N. with a hammer, evidence of any prior violence would only strengthen the need for D.N. to leave when first asked. The exclusion of such evidence was harmless error.