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PEOPLE v. ROLON

No. B197488.

73 Cal.Rptr.3d 358 (2008)

160 Cal.App.4th 1206

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Sylvia Torres ROLON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Four.

March 11, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett Harding Duxbury, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Mary Sanchez and Michael R. Johnsen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Certified for Partial Publication.*

EPSTEIN, P.J.

In the published portion of this opinion, we hold that a parent has a duty to protect his or her young child and may be criminally culpable on an aider and abettor theory for an assault causing death and on an implied malice theory for murder where the parent fails to take reasonably necessary steps for the child's protection, so...

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