In re Georgiana B. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

The section 300, subdivision (b) petition The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed a section 300 petition on behalf of Georgiana on June 26, 2013. At the jurisdictional hearing held on March 28, 2014, the juvenile court sustained paragraph b-1 of the section 300 petition which, as amended, alleged that Mother had “mental and emotional problems including paranoid and delusional behavior, which rendered her unable to provide regular care” for Georgiana.2 Events leading up to the jurisdictional and dispositional hearing Mother’s delusional episodes In June 2013, Father reported to the police that Mother and Georgiana were missing after Mother had left voice messages for him that vampires and others were

Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. 2 An allegation in paragraph b-1 of the section 300 petition stating, “The mother has failed to obtain mental health services for the mother’s psychiatric condition,” was stricken. Paragraph b-2 of the section 300 petition, which alleged Father had a history of illicit drug abuse, including heroin and cocaine, and was a current abuser of marijuana with a positive…