In re E.M. CA3

BACKGROUND

In June 2024, the 16-year-old minor was detained from mother’s custody after the minor admitted being under the influence of methamphetamine and ecstasy. At that time, the minor also reported that mother knowingly allowed her roommate M.C. to provide the minor with those illegal substances, mother used methamphetamine with M.C. and mother’s partner, S.S., while the minor was in her care, M.C. persuaded the minor to have sexual intercourse with her on more than one occasion while both she and the minor were living with mother, and mother was aware the minor was having sexual intercourse with M.C. but did not contact the authorities. In addition to being mother’s roommate, M.C. was also the mother of the minor’s 16-year-old girlfriend, D., with whom the minor shares one child and is expecting another, and who also lived in the home. On June 27, 2024, the Department filed a dependency petition alleging failure to supervise and protect the minor (§ 300, subd. (b)) and sexual abuse of the minor (§ 300, subd. (d)) due to mother’s substance abuse, provision of illegal drugs to the minor, and

2 failure to protect the minor from sexual abuse by M.C.2 Thereafter, the juvenile…