In re C.R.

BACKGROUND

1. Summary of C.R.’s dependency case Mother gave birth to C.R. in December 2020, less than a month before she turned 16 years old. The father was mother’s adult boyfriend. Mother herself was a minor dependent of the juvenile court. The Department had filed a section 300 petition on her behalf in January 2020.2

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. “[W]e use the term ‘Indian’ throughout to reflect the statutory language.” (In re Dezi C. (2024) 16 Cal.5th 1112, 1125, fn. 1 (Dezi C.).) We intend no disrespect. 2 Mother was detained from maternal grandmother in March 2020. In July 2020 the court sustained the petition’s allegations that maternal grandmother could not properly care for or supervise mother due to mother’s behavioral issues, including running away to be with her adult boyfriend, who was abusive. Maternal grandmother’s reunification services were terminated in October 2021.

2 Mother, who was pregnant, had been placed in a short-term residential program (STRP). Mother had a “history of running away/being AWOL” from her placement to be with father. Father abused mother, had forced mother to have sex with him,…