In re A.W. CA2/3

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Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJuly 26, 2013B244770California1,940 words

Opinion

Opinion

Aldrich, J.

INTRODUCTION

M.F., mother of A. and Brandon, appeals from the dispositional order of the juvenile court that removed the children from her custody. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 361, subd. (c).)1 As the evidence amply supports the removal order, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Viewing the evidence according to the usual rules (In re A.S. (2011) 202 Cal.App.4th 237, 247), it shows there have been two previous dependency cases involving this family, one commenced in 1995 because of general neglect and an unhealthy, unsafe home, and another in 2010 because mother was involved in a drunken fight in her home and had enabled her minor child to become intoxicated. The Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) has also received six referrals since 2001 concerning this family.2 In April 2012, sheriff‟s deputies responded to a call about a fight and found mother and Rodolfo S. visibly intoxicated and smelling of alcohol. Mother was very uncooperative and yelled at the deputies to leave. There were blood stains all over the floor and on the walls and both mother and Rodolfo refused to explain the cause. Daughter Ma.‟s boyfriend claimed that mother had stabbed him…

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