In re S.C. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Mother and Father have six children together.3 Between 2015 and 2023, the family received nine referrals in various jurisdictions for physical and emotional abuse and general neglect. All of them were deemed unfounded or inconclusive. Another referral was made in October 2023 alleging general neglect. The reporting party found multiple children unattended and in dangerous conditions around their apartment. One child was naked outside the home. The apartment also had a chemical odor, the oven was open, and one of the children was turning the oven controls. Neither Mother nor Father was home. After some investigation, in December 2023 the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) filed a petition pursuant to section 300, subdivision (b) regarding all six children. Count b-1 alleged the parents placed the children in a detrimental and endangering

Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. The juvenile court sustained a second count as to Mother, T.W., but she is not a party to this appeal.

The children range in age from two to 11 as of the date of the January 2025 order. Because many of…