L.M.

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURE

On September 19, 2012, Child Social Worker (CSW) Kristina Martinez responded to a referral alleging that mother, who has a history of drug use, had engaged in violent behavior in the presence of her one-year-old child. She shoved her sister’s boyfriend, and removed and threw the family’s fire alarm detectors into the street, claiming that people were using them to spy on her. On one occasion, she shoved her mother, hit her father, and threatened to shoot her family. The police were called and she was taken to the hospital, where she was placed on a psychiatric hold. The CSW interviewed mother in the hospital, where she was diagnosed with depression not otherwise specified (NOS), and tested positive for marijuana and “benzo.” Mother said she had a medical marijuana license and smoked marijuana three times a day. She admitted that she was sometimes under the influence when caring for J.M. She stated that she last used ecstasy a few months ago and that she had used methamphetamine years ago. Mother signed a safety plan, by which she agreed that she would stay at maternal grandmother’s home upon release from the hospital, and that her interactions…