In re A.M. CA2/5

I. INTRODUCTION

Amanda M., mother of now two-year-old A.M., appeals from the juvenile court’s order denying her reunification services with the child.1 We affirm.

II. BACKGROUND

A. Mother’s Failure to Reunify with Child’s Half Siblings

On November 14, 2017, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) filed a Welfare and Institutions Code section 3002 petition alleging mother had physically abused the child’s older half siblings M.S. and A.M.-S. by striking them with a belt and brush and threatening to smash their heads against a wall. Mother also struck M.S.’s stomach and arm with her fist. The petition further alleged mother had mental and emotional problems, failed to

The child’s father, R.B., is not a party to this appeal.

All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 take her psychiatric medication as prescribed, and had been involuntarily hospitalized on three occasions for the evaluation and treatment of her psychiatric condition. The juvenile court sustained the petition. At the February 22, 2018, disposition hearing, the juvenile court ordered the Department to provide mother with…