In Re Aaron R.

M. Jeffrey Speno, Esq., Mitchell S. Griffin, Esq., San Francisco, Speno Law Offices, for Movant and Appellant.

Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Kimiko Burton-Cruz, Joseph Sandoval, Deputy City Attorneys, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

SWAGER, J.

In these dependency proceedings, the mother appeals from an order terminating parental rights and freeing the minor for adoption and the maternal grandmother appeals an order denying a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 388. [1] We affirm both orders.

The dependency proceedings concern the three children of Stephanie R., a single mother who was alleged to suffer from a mental illness that impaired her ability to care for the children and maintain a safe and sanitary home. The youngest of the children, Aaron R., was three months old when the dependency petition was filed in San Francisco Superior Court on October 27, 2000. The initial detention order filed October 30, 2000, placed Aaron in the custody of his maternal grandmother, Irie P., together with his older siblings, E. R., then age 10, and Earl, then age 11. On January 30, 2001, following jurisdictional and dispositional hearings, the court placed Aaron and E.R.…