J.C.

I. BACKGROUND

From 2009 to 2011, Mother was involved in an earlier dependency case involving the twins’ older half-siblings, triplets who were born in 2002. The triplets came to the Department’s attention due to Mother’s substance abuse, which contributed to neglect of the minors. The triplets were removed from Mother’s care in March 2009 after she physically abused one of them. Mother received services from January 2009 to November 2011. The triplets’ father was incarcerated with an immigration hold and later deported. In March 2009, Mother reported the following substance abuse history. She started using alcohol and marijuana (sometimes laced with cocaine) at age 13. When she was 16, she experimented with ecstasy and mushrooms, tested positive for controlled substances while on probation for auto theft, and completed a six-month outpatient treatment program. At age 18, she completed 30 days of inpatient treatment and three or four months of aftercare, and the following year she completed 28 days of inpatient treatment and six months in a halfway house. Mother remained clean and sober for about a year and a half. In 2001 (at age 20), however, she met the triplets’ father and…