Charlotte M. v. Super. Ct. CA1/5

BACKGROUND

On December 26, 2013, the Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau (Bureau) filed a section 300 petition on behalf of C.J., then four days old. Mother pled no contest to the petition’s allegation that C.J. was at risk of serious physical harm

1 All undesignated section references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

1 because, at C.J.’s birth, both Mother and C.J. tested positive for amphetamine and Mother used methamphetamine during her pregnancy with C.J.2 (§ 300, subd. (b).) A contested dispositional hearing was held on April 21, 2014. As set forth in the Bureau’s written report, Mother has five other children who were detained from her custody. The juvenile court took judicial notice of certain dependency records regarding two of these children, J.J. and I.J. Section 300 petitions were filed on behalf of J.J. and I.J. in April 2013. In May 2013, the juvenile court sustained allegations that J.J. and I.J. lived in an uninhabitable home, Mother has an “ongoing and chronic” drug problem preventing her from adequately providing for the minors, and Mother and the minors’ father have a history of engaging in domestic violence in front of the minors.…