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Show # 1044 Page 59 jurisdiction of the court over an unwilling child. So it would seem that, as far as the child is concerned, that ah, your obligation to him ought to be the same as to any client, that, if he feels his best interest is not to be adjudicated, then it's a matter of fighting for him. Simple as that. Now, there may be another dimension to this, and that is assuming that the court has found that the acts charged in the petition against the child are true, then, the next step is what happens, you see. Well, the court having taken jurisdiction over the child has really only gone the first step, and the next step may be the - the giant step - the really important one, that is what is the child - what does the court do with the child? What happens to the child next. Of course, here the court has such a wide range of possibilities available to it. The court ah, could simply tell the child to go home and go back to its parents and be a good kid. The court could send the child back to the parents and put the child to some extent under the supervision of a probation officer of the court. The court could take the child out of the home and put it in a foster home somewhere, or try to find some other institution for it, or it could send it to a state institution which resembles, of course, a penitentiary, right? |
