In re A.L. CA4/1

BACKGROUND

A. Family History Minor was taken into protective custody in another state after Mother was arrested in 2018 for criminal conversion and resisting arrest at a

shopping mall.2 Minor was out of Mother’s care for over two years.3 In October 2021, a couple of months after authorities returned Minor to Mother’s home on a trial visit, child services investigated another allegation of abuse based on a report that Mother cut Minor’s lip when she hit Minor with a belt. The child services agency could not substantiate the allegations

Further undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. Conversion, as described by statute in the other state, appears to be equivalent to theft in California. The statutory definition of resisting arrest in the other state is also similar to the California definition. Mother attributes much of this time to COVID-related court slowdowns in Indiana.

2 by a preponderance of evidence, but noted Minor’s safety was being monitored through the reunification case. The out-of-state case terminated in May 2022 after Mother and Minor relocated to another state. B. Initiation of California Dependency…