In re G.D. CA4/1

BACKGROUND

In October 2013, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (the

Agency) filed dependency petitions for eight-year-old G.D. and seven-year-old twins

A.D., Jr., and R.D. The petitions alleged that A.D. asked the children if he should talk to

their mother, M.D. The children said yes. A.D. replied that he would have to kill M.D.

and solicited the children's involvement in his plan to kill her. A.D. then killed M.D.

The petitions also alleged that A.D. was incarcerated and unwilling or unable to arrange

appropriate and adequate care for the children.

A.D. was jailed and charged with murder. The children were detained in San

Diego with the NREFM's who had been caring for them since September 2013.2 At the

Further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise specified.

On October 28, 2013, two days before the Agency filed the dependency petitions, A.D. told the social worker he wanted the paternal aunt to care for the children. A.D. refused to provide the paternal aunt's contact information. On October 28, the social worker obtained the telephone number from the NREFM's and called the…