In re Noemi M. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Detention and section 300 petition On July 20, 2010, the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) filed a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 3001 on behalf of then one-month old Noemi alleging that father and Daniela M. (mother)2 had a history of engaging in violent altercations which resulted in father’s arrest, that mother had an eight-year history of illicit drug use and currently used methamphetamine, that maternal grandfather had sexually abused mother as a child and Noemi lived in the home with him, that the maternal grandfather abused drugs, and that father failed to provide Noemi with the necessities of life and was currently incarcerated. Father was not present at the July 20, 2010 detention hearing at which the juvenile court found him to be an alleged father. The court ordered Noemi to be detained in shelter care. Jurisdiction and disposition In a September 2010 jurisdiction disposition report, the Department reported that father had two convictions for battery on a spouse in 2009 and a 2010 conviction for auto theft. He was presently incarcerated as the result of a January 2009 domestic violence incident in…