In re Jordan S. CA2/5

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On February 16, 2010, minors Jordan, born in 2004, Justin, born in 2007, and Ja., born 2009, were declared dependents of the court based on sustained allegations under section 300, subdivision (b), that they were at substantial risk of suffering serious physical harm or illness as a result of their parents‟ failure to adequately supervise or protect them and mother‟s willful failure to protect the children from the conduct of their father. The children were removed from the parents‟ custody and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) placed them in the care of their paternal grandparents. Mother was provided reunification services and granted regular visits which were first monitored and later unmonitored. On August 2, 2011, the juvenile court conducted a review hearing pursuant to section 366.22, at which the social worker, Jordan, mother and paternal grandfather testified. The court remarked that mother‟s testimony “was so removed and so aloof from any empathy, sympathy, or understanding of her children‟s needs from the very second of what a child needs, the most basic needs, . . . [¶] There‟s no – there‟s a disconnect between…