Los Angeles County (Monterey Park)
MONTEREY PARK -- When Judge Sabina A. Helton was told dependency court was going to be her first assignment on the bench, she hadn't even heard of it.
"So I sort of looked it up really quickly because I didn't have a concept for what it was going to be like," Helton said in her chambers at the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse late last year.
Upon first observing the Los Angeles Co... (continued)