In re C.K. CA3
Opinion
Opinion
BACKGROUND
In April 2013, the department filed a petition under section 300, subdivision (b), as to the 10-year-old minor, alleging that mother and other adults abused methamphetamine and marijuana in mother’s home and that mother engaged in domestic violence with her boyfriend. The minor’s presumed father, R.K., previously had custody of the children, but he died in a house fire in January 2011. After that, mother took them back. The detention report stated that the minor and his 13-year-old sister, H.K., had been placed voluntarily by mother with J.R., a teacher at their school. However, the teacher was having financial difficulty caring for both minors. The paternal grandmother, S.K., had lived in Santa Cruz and later moved to Felton. She once had temporary legal guardianship of the children and had been approved as a caregiver for them. The teacher had been approved as a caregiver only for the minor. Mother had used methamphetamine for the last three years and had been repeatedly arrested on drug-related charges. She had tested positive for methamphetamine and THC after her most recent arrest in February 2013. Her boyfriend