In re P.R. CA4/3

FACTS

P.R. was taken into protective custody when she was just short of her first birthday. A month or more earlier, mother had left her with a step-maternal grandmother with no provision for support or consent for care. The whereabouts of the parents was unknown. P.R.’s brother, B.R., had previously been placed into protective custody. The parents, having failed to comply with the case plan, B.R.’s case was scheduled for a selection and implementation hearing under section 366.26 three months hence. The Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) reported prior contacts with the family began six years earlier. Both parents had prior criminal histories. Mother and father both had unresolved substance abuse issues and a history of domestic violence. Mother had been diagnosed as bipolar and had been hospitalized about six times. Mother had lost her parental rights to three of her four children. The maternal step-grandmother’s former girlfriend, Q.C., requested she be considered for P.R.’s placement. P.R. was placed in her home. Q.C. provided the social

2 worker with P.R.’s birth certificate and mother’s tribal membership identification card, showing mother was one-half Cocopah.…