In re Rickey A. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

A. The detention report On January 23, 2012, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) reported the following in connection with a detention hearing before the juvenile court to determine whether the minors should be removed immediately from the care of Mother. Mother has an extensive child welfare history, including a voluntary family maintenance case based on domestic violence between Mother and a former boyfriend, that had been opened and closed in 2005. A second voluntary family maintenance case was opened in 2009, but was not successfully resolved, and the minors were removed

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 from Mother in June 2010. In September 2010, the juvenile court sustained a section 300 petition that alleged Mother placed the minors at substantial risk of harm due to her nine- year history of drug abuse; and that Mother had mental and emotional problems, including a diagnosis of schizophrenia and depression. Mother reunified with the minors in December 2011. Mother has a fifth child who is not a party to this appeal and whose father, Carlton H., has full custody of her. On December 6, 2011,…