In re M.G. CA2/8

FACTS

M.G. was born in December 2014. His parents are Michael G. (father) and C.M. (mother). They are not married and do not live together. Mother has another son, R.G., born in May 2013, with a different father whose whereabouts are unknown. In January 2022, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) detained M.G. and R.G. from mother, and released them to the home of father (in R.G.’s case, temporarily). The boys were detained because on December 3, 2021, mother had dropped off M.G. at a church, telling the pastor she could not handle M.G. anymore. Mother told the pastor he could take M.G. to his grandmother, and gave the pastor a nonexistent address. In March 2022, the juvenile court sustained allegations under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b),

2 that mother had mental and emotional problems that placed her two children at risk of harm. (Further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.) These problems included “diagnoses of depression and schizophrenia, auditory hallucinations and a history of a suicide attempt,” as well as thoughts of hurting M.G. on December 3, 2021. Father submitted to the…