Hearing to Resume on Return of Child to Foster Home
A Juvenile Court judge postponed a hearing Thursday to determine whether 4-year-old Taj Jayyusi will remain in Orangewood Children’s Home or be returned to his foster mother, who is fighting to get him back.
The hearing is expected to resume today in Orange County Juvenile Court.
The child has been in protective custody at the shelter for neglected and abused children since Feb. 18, six days after his biological parents allegedly abducted him from his foster mother’s home in Rancho Santa Margarita.
Social Services officials say they placed Taj there rather than with his foster mother, Sue White, to prevent any future abduction attempts.
Taj’s biological parents are accused of kidnaping him from White’s garage Feb. 12 while she was taking a shower. Sheriff’s deputies who staked out a Cerritos business where the boy’s father, 55-year-old Yaser Jayyusi, worked as a security guard, arrested him and his wife, Deborah Ann, when the couple arrived to pick up Yaser Jayyusi’s paycheck six days later.
According to authorities, Taj was in the car at the time.
They were booked into the Orange County Jail on Thursday on suspicion of child abduction and remained there Thursday in lieu of $250,000 bond.
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