In re A.K. CA1/5

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On May 28, 2014, the Agency filed a dependency petition regarding A.K., then 13 months old, under subdivisions (b), (g), and (j) of section 300. The petition alleged that mother and father were unable to provide for A.K.’s care due to their mental illness, asserting that mother had undiagnosed mental health issues that had limited her care for A.K.’s siblings, father had post traumatic stress syndrome, mother was arrested for domestic violence, and mother and father had been involved in ongoing domestic violence in A.K.’s presence. The petition further alleged that mother had previously abused or neglected A.K.’s siblings, noting she had failed to reunify with two of his siblings and had been charged with felony endangerment of one of them. The Agency’s detention report admonished that mother and father had an “extremely volatile relationship” and advised that A.K. is mother’s seventh child, she does not have custody of any of her children, and she was on formal probation for felony willful cruelty to a child at the time. The juvenile court found that father was the presumed father of A.K. and detained the minor. A. Initial ICWA Notices On some…