In re S.B. CA3

BACKGROUND

2022 Juvenile Dependency Petitions On September 28, 2022, the respondent Sutter County Health and Human Services Department (the Department) filed juvenile dependency petitions pursuant to section 300 as to all eight children, the boys Ma.B., B.B., and Sam.B., and the girls N.B., Sa.B., Z.B., So.B., and F.B. Father is not the biological father of Ma.B., whose biological father is not a party to these proceedings. The petitions alleged the parents had been involved in a prior dependency matter in Yuba and Sutter Counties in 2020. In that prior matter, it was reported that mother used a dog shock collar on the two younger brothers as discipline and to toilet train them. Additionally, the parents’ house was in a dirty and unsanitary condition, and several of the children had “noticeably rotten teeth.” The parents entered into a safety plan, and, in 2021, the children were returned to the custody and care of the parents, and the case was closed. Factually, the present petitions alleged that, on September 26, 2022, two of the children were found outside unattended. Social workers responded and, based on the circumstances in the home, all children were placed in protective…