Christopher B. v. Superior Court CA1/4

I. BACKGROUND

C.B. and S.M., the minors who are the subject of these proceedings, are part of a larger sibling group that has been known to the San Francisco Human Services Agency (Agency) for many years. Specifically, mother has been the subject of approximately 17 child welfare referrals since 2000 involving allegations of neglect, caretaker absence/incapacity, and physical abuse. The family received voluntary services through the Agency on three separate occasions between 2003 and 2011. Further, mother participated in both family maintenance and family reunification services in a dependency proceeding involving her son J.T. (born May 1998) from September 2010 to December 2012, but failed to reunify.2 In addition, two previous dependency petitions were filed in 2010 and 2011 with respect to S.M. and two of her half-siblings, D.T. (born August 1996) and M.H. (born November 2002). Mother received family maintenance services from April 2011 to November 2012, presumably in connection with the latter of these two petitions. According to Christopher B., he has lived in the family home since June 2010, while many of these prior dependency proceedings were pending. He is the presumed…