In re Jade P. CA4/2

BACKGROUND

Mother has three other children who are Jade’s half siblings. Her parental rights

to those three half siblings were terminated (in 2016, 2021, and 2022, respectively) after

the children tested positive at birth for amphetamines, methamphetamines, and/or opiates.

Garrett P. (Father) has another daughter who is Jade’s fourth half sibling. A relative has

legal guardianship of that half sibling. (Father is not a party to this appeal.)

Father and Mother lived with the paternal great-grandmother, paternal great-aunt,

and paternal uncle. Jade was born in October 2022, and both she and Mother tested

positive for methamphetamine and opiates. Mother acknowledged that she used

methamphetamine and heroin daily throughout the pregnancy. Father was in an inpatient

substance abuse treatment program. Before that, he used methamphetamine and heroin

daily with Mother.

DPSS obtained a protective custody warrant to take Jade into protective custody.

It also filed a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions

(b)(1) and (j), alleging that the parents abused controlled substances, Mother’s parental

rights to Jade’s half siblings were terminated, and…