J.P.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Previous Dependency and First Sibling Death

A.D. was previously a dependent of the court from 2010 to 2012. The

circumstances of the first dependency are as follows. In June 2010, San Bernardino

County Children and Family Services (CFS) received a referral alleging that A.D.’s

three-year-old half brother C.P. was being physically abused and neglected. Specifically,

the referral alleged that mother’s boyfriend, who fathered A.D. and mother’s two

subsequent children, but not C.P., had smacked C.P. in the chest and caused him to hit his

1 All section references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 head on a table and suffer a large gash to his head. At that time, one-year-old A.D. and

his one-month-old sister were living in the home and were considered at-risk. CFS had

trouble locating and interviewing mother and A.D.’s father, apparently because they

moved residences.

CFS made contact with mother and A.D.’s father in July 2010, after paramedics

were called to the home. A.D.’s infant sister was found unconscious and unresponsive in

her bed, with blood coming from her nose and mouth. She was later pronounced…