In re Z.T. CA2/1

Statement of Facts Nine-year-old Z.T. is the daughter of father and T.T. (mother). Z.T. lived with mother and her half siblings, C.A., age three, and J.A., age twenty-one months, who’s father, Jorge A., was a frequent visitor at mother’s home.2 On May 16, 2013, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) learned police searched mother’s home pursuant to an investigation into whether Jorge A. was selling drugs and found loaded firearms, ammunition, two pounds of marijuana, and methamphetamine within access of the children. During the search, mother admitted to using drugs. DCFS detained the children and filed a juvenile dependency petition under section 300, subdivision (b) on May 21, 2013, alleging mother and Jorge A. placed the children in an endangering home environment where Jorge A. sold illicit drugs, and loaded firearms, ammunition, marijuana, and methamphetamine were within the children’s reach. The petition further alleged mother’s history and current use of illicit drugs and Jorge A.’s failure to protect the children from exposure to mother’s drug use endangered the children’s physical health and safety and put them at risk of physical harm. Father was not named…