In re Greg N. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

A. The section 300, subdivision (b) petition On January 24, 2013, shortly after Greg’s birth, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed a section 300 petition on his behalf. As sustained, the petition alleged Mother had a nine-year history of substance abuse, was a current user of methamphetamine, and had used illicit drugs during her pregnancy with Greg. The events leading up to the sustaining of the petition were as follows. On January 18, 2013, DCFS received a referral that Mother had given birth to Greg. Two months earlier, Mother’s parental rights as to her daughter, Janis G., had been terminated. DCFS reported to the juvenile court Mother had an extensive drug abuse history from age 13; had abused methamphetamine, ecstasy, plant-based hallucinogens, and

Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 alcohol; had been hospitalized at least once for an overdose; had enrolled in but never completed substance abuse programs; and had been physically violent toward maternal grandmother, resulting in Mother’s arrest for battery. Mother had failed to reunite with Janis because of Mother’s substance abuse problems and…