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On 17 th September, 2015, on the application for the Minister for Health and Social Services I made an emergency protection order in respect of Ruby ("the child"). Although I gave very brief reasons when I made the order I indicated that I would provide more elaborate reasons. I now do so.
The child, who is not yet named, is a baby girl born this year and is the daughter of A ("the mother"). The father is understood to be B but paternity has not at this point been established. In any event the mother and B are not married so only the mother has parental responsibility for the child.
The child is the third child of the mother. The child has two half-siblings, Lexi (this is not her real name) born in 2006 and Tyler (this is not his real name) born in 2008. Lexi lives with her maternal grandparents ("the grandparents") under a residence order and Tyler is in a foster placement.
The application before me is made pursuant to Article 37(1)(a)(i) of the Children (Jersey) Law 2002 ("the 2002 Law") which insofar as relevant to this application says:-
"The Bailiff may, on the application of any person, make an emergency protection order with respect to a child if the Bailiff is satisfied that:
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