In re L.C. CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

In May 2012, the Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau (Bureau) received a report that mother, who was living in a domestic violence shelter with the two older children, had left sister, who was then almost two years old, unattended “in a bathtub full of water for [10 to 15 minutes] while she answered a phone call out of the room.” In mid-June, after mother failed to attend a meeting with the social worker, the social worker went to the motel where mother was staying and spoke to two women who said they were friends with mother. The friends reported that mother had retrieved sister and older brother from father and had then left them at the motel the previous night in the care of one of the friends. At approximately 1 a.m., while mother was still gone, father came to the room and “was banging on the door, shouting and ‘acting a fool.’ He appeared to be high on methamphetamine. He was yelling, screaming[,] and threatening to blow up the motel . . . [and] seemed so out of control[,] . . . like ‘a devil.’ ” Father picked up ten-month-old older brother and “was swinging [him] from [his] legs in a swooping/swinging motion.” The…