In re N.S. CA2/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURE

On October 23, 2013, the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed a section 300 petition (Petition) on behalf of N.S. (then five years old) and A.S. (then three years old), alleging inter alia that N.S. and A.S. had suffered, or there was substantial risk that they would suffer, serious physical harm or illness due to the failure of their mother, R.W. (Mother), to comply with a juvenile court order in a prior dependency proceeding which restricted Father to monitored visits and for Mother not to be the monitor. Rather, the Petition alleged, Mother allowed Father to reside in the children’s home and to have unmonitored visits with the children. The children were not detained from parents.2 Also on October 23, 2013, DCFS filed a Non-Detained Report stating that in a prior 2011 dependency case, a sustained allegation stated that Mother and Father had a history of violent altercations in the presence of the children and described several instances where Father struck or choked Mother. As part of the prior case, Father was ordered to complete a parenting program and either domestic violence program or individual counseling to…