In re A.A. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

The juvenile court originally assumed jurisdiction over minors A.A. and A.S. on October 18, 2012, when A.A. was six years old and A.S. was nine months old. The court sustained allegations in a non-detain section 300 petition regarding Francisco’s physical abuse of A.A. (counts b-1 & j-1), Mother’s failure to provide mental health treatment for 2 A.A. (counts b-2 & j-2), and Mother allowing A.A. to frequent the maternal

1 Further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. 2 An April 2012 referral to DCFS, alleged that A.A. was exhibiting inappropriate sexual behavior due to having been molested by her maternal grandfather when she was three or four years old and that A.A. had tried to smother her three-month-old sister. There were no prior juvenile court dependency proceedings involving A.A., but DCFS had received six other referrals regarding A.A. prior to the April 2012 referral. DCFS

2 grandparents’ home, knowing the maternal grandparents engaged in physical altercations 3 in A.A.’s presence (counts b-3 & j-3). The same day, the court ordered Mother and Francisco to complete a parenting education course and ordered Mother to enroll A.A. in…