B.E.

BACKGROUND

Mother was born in 1992. Sometime before June 2009 she gave birth to her first

child. Mother was a dependent minor at the time. In June 2009 the Riverside County

Department of Public Social Services (the department) received a referral alleging

domestic violence between mother and the father of her first child, and that mother

generally neglected the child. The department eventually filed a petition under

section 300 alleging mother had issues with substance abuse and domestic violence.

These allegations were found true, and the child was detained. In November 2010, the

court terminated mother’s reunification services. In October 2011—when mother was

over 18 years old—the court terminated her parental rights and allowed the child’s

paternal grandparents to adopt.

This dependency concerns mother’s two youngest children: L.E. (born 2013) and

M.G. (born 2018). L.E.’s biological father was not a presence in her life.

1 Unlabeled statutory citations refer to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 In 2013 the department received a referral alleging L.E. tested positive for

methamphetamine at birth. The department followed up on this referral multiple times,

and…