In re Joshua N. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

The family consists of mother, Timothy N. (father), and the children, Joshua and Nylah.2 Petition and detention report On January 6, 2015, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed a petition and detention report regarding Joshua and Nylah. The petition alleged, under section 300, subdivisions (a) and (b), that mother had a history of violent and assaultive behavior, and that she had engaged in a violent altercation with a non-related adult female in the presence of the children. Mother had instructed Joshua to intervene in the altercation. The petition alleged that mother’s violent and assaultive behaviors endangered the children’s physical health and safety and placed them at risk of harm. The events leading up to the filing of the petition began on November 26, 2014. DCFS received a referral alleging that mother had been arrested after a fight between mother and an non-related adult, Alicia. Alicia sustained marks to her shoulder,

All further statutory references are to the Welfare & Institutions Code unless otherwise noted.

Father is not a party to this appeal. At the time of the relevant events, father was living separately from…