In re R.H. CA4/2

BACKGROUND

A detailed account of the procedural and factual history of the section 300

proceedings up to and including adjudging R.H. a dependent of the court is set forth in

our opinion issued in mother’s prior appeal. (In re R.H. (May 26, 2023, E079932)

[nonpub. opn.].) Suffice to say here that R.H. was three years old in November 2019

when his sibling (baby girl S.) was born with methamphetamine in her system and taken

into protective custody at the hospital by respondent San Bernardino County Department

of Children and Family Services (the Department). The Department filed section 300

juvenile dependency petitions on behalf of R.H. and baby girl S.

For the next 31 months, mother and S.H. (father), refused to disclose R.H.’s

whereabouts. In the meantime, baby girl S. had been adjudged a dependent of the court

and after unsuccessful efforts to engage the parents in family reunification services the

juvenile court issued an order terminating parental rights as to her.

In July 2022, R.H. was found, taken into protective custody, and placed with the

G family. At the September contested hearing on jurisdiction, the juvenile court

sustained an amended section 300…