In re T.V. CA4/2

BACKGROUND

In October 2022, the child, then 18 days old, was taken into custody pursuant to a

Penal Code section 1524 detention warrant obtained by respondent San Bernardino

County Children and Family Services (the Department).2 The Department placed the

child in foster care and filed a section 300 juvenile dependency petition.

The juvenile court found the child came within section 300, declared her a

dependent of the court, removed her from parental custody and continued her in a relative

home where she had by then been placed. It ordered family reunification services to be

provided to mother and the child’s presumed father.

Reunification efforts were unsuccessful, and the court terminated them at the

September 2023 six-month review hearing held 10 months after the child was removed

All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code of California unless otherwise designated. References to rules are to California Rules of Court.

The child’s three maternal half siblings were also removed from mother’s home and placed with the previously noncustodial father. The court dismissed the dependency proceedings as to the half siblings and…