In re D.Q. CA4/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

In March or April 2015, the parents and children moved to San Bernardino County

from Stanislaus County. The children, along with their older half-brother T.P,2 had been

1 Section references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code except where otherwise indicated.

2 T.P. was born in 2008 and is not a subject of this appeal. The parents’ extremely disturbing treatment of him is the main basis for the two separate dependency cases regarding his half-siblings, D.Q. and U.Q. Since T.P. was two years old, CPS in Stanislaus County had received six separate referrals about father physically abusing T.P. and the parents neglecting T.P. In January 2013, when T.P. was four years old, the dependency case in Stanislaus County for all three children was triggered when mother [footnote continued on next page]

2 removed from the parents’ care in Stanislaus County in January 2013. The children were

returned to the parents in late 2014. On January 30, 2015, T.P. was also placed in the

home in a “trial” visit or placement with mother. The San Bernardino Superior Court

accepted the transfer of their juvenile dependency case.

In April 2015, Children and Family Services…