In re S.S. CA2/8

BACKGROUND

I. Mother’s dependency history with S.S.

S.S. is now seven years old. On April 29, 2022, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed a petition alleging Mother placed S.S. and her younger sister, Emilia, at risk of harm because (1) Mother did not protect them from her male companion’s physical abuse of S.S.; (2) Mother did not protect the children from the male companion’s domestic abuse of Mother; (3) Mother did not protect the children from the male companion’s substance abuse; and (4) Mother herself abused substances. When DCFS filed the petition, S.S. was four years old. At the outset of the case, the trial court granted an emergency removal, and DCFS placed S.S. in the home of the foster parents that cared for her throughout the dependency case. However, Emilia and S.S. were placed with two different foster parents. At the time of the jurisdiction and

All further undesignated statutory citations are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 disposition report, S.S. and her sister remained placed with their respective foster parents. On June 16, 2022, the trial court found jurisdiction on the theories alleged: Mother’s…