In re Rebecca C. CA2/8

FACTS

Mother and Raymond C. (Father)1 are the parents of Rebecca C. who was born in December 1999. In August 2013, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) received a referral that Mother and Father used marijuana and methamphetamine in Rebecca’s presence, and that there were guns and drug sales in the family home, and that “everyone” who lived in the home was using drugs. DCFS sent two case social workers to the family home in response to the referral. Mother denied all of the allegations. She stated that she and Father were separated, and that he did not live in the family home. She denied any current use of drugs, and stated that she had completed a drug program in 2006. Mother allowed the case social workers to walk through the family home, and no drugs or guns were noted. Mother and her two adult daughters who resided in the family home agreed to take drug tests. A few days later, Mother’s drug test came back positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine, and marijuana. When the case social workers returned to the family home and told Mother about the drug test, she admitted that she used methamphetamine days earlier, and stated that she…