In re V.R. CA3

BACKGROUND

The minor was born in 2010. In 2017, father participated in a child protective service informal supervision program based on a domestic violence incident between father and his girlfriend that occurred in the presence of the minor and her half sibling. Law enforcement placed the minor and her half sibling in protective custody. The minor’s mother was offered services and after successfully completing them she was granted sole legal and physical custody of the minor. The record does not indicate the extent, if any, of ICWA compliance efforts in that proceeding. In 2023, the El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency (the El Dorado Agency) filed a petition pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b)(1),1 alleging, among other things, that the mother engaged in substance abuse and abandoned the minor in Oregon. The petition further alleged that father was incarcerated and had been convicted for the sexual abuse of children.

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. Undesignated rule references are to the California Rules of Court.

2 According to the detention report, the social worker asked mother if…