In re E.T. CA2/4

BACKGROUND

I. Prior Dependency History

The family consists of mother, father, J.L., and their daughter E. (born in 2016). Mother also has eight other children, born between 1992 and 2010, all of whom were permanently removed from mother’s care based on sustained allegations of drug use, neglect/endangerment, and mental illness.2 Mother has an extensive prior child welfare history with the DCFS, as well as the same department in San Bernardino County, including more than 30 referrals between 1994 (when mother was 17 and her first child was two) and June 2019, including 12 substantiated referrals and six dependency cases. Mother’s criminal history included misdemeanor convictions in 2002 for abandonment of a child and inflicting injury on a child, a conviction in 2005 for misdemeanor battery and felony petty theft with priors, and a conviction in 2008 for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. In September 2016, the juvenile court sustained a prior dependency petition on behalf of E., based on allegations that mother had mental and emotional problems and had stopped taking her prescribed medication, placing E. at risk of serious physical harm. The court placed E.…