Ml
Ml v. Superior Court of Ventura Cty.
Opinion
Opinion
Gilbert, J.
A mother leaves the hospital an hour after her child is bom. Both the mother and her newborn test positive for amphetamines. Here we hold a social worker may remove the child from the mother’s custody because there is reasonable cause to believe that the child is in imminent danger.
M.L. (Mother) petitions for an extraordinary writ and challenges orders of the juvenile court denying family reunification services, denying placement of her newborn for private adoption, denying dismissal of the dependency, and setting a permanent plan hearing. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.26.) We deny the petition.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On September 29, 2008, Ventura County Human Services Agency (HSA) filed a dependency petition pursuant to section 300 on behalf of newborn L. HSA alleged that hospital laboratory tests revealed the presence of amphetamines in Mother and the newborn at birth. HSA alleged that Mother has a long history of substance abuse, and that her six older children were dependents of the juvenile court in 2006 and 2007. Mother did not reunify with the children and she continues to suffer from substance abuse. HSA also alleged that the identity and whereabouts of…