In re Kai F. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

Michelle M. (mother) and Art F. (father) have one child, Kai F. (born June 2017). For the first six months of his life, Kai lived with his parents in a trailer located on the back portion of the paternal grandparents’ property. During this period, mother and father used marijuana on a daily basis in Kai’s presence. Father would also enter the paternal grandparents’ home, steal and pawn items, and use the proceeds to purchase prescription pills and alcohol to ingest along with marijuana. Mother and father also had heated verbal arguments in Kai’s presence, and those verbal disputes sometimes became physical; on one occasion, mother inflicted a cut on father’s neck. When Kai was approximately six months old, the paternal grandparents became so concerned for his well-being that they took him into their home. Mother and father terminated their romantic relationship around that time, and mother started living in abandoned buildings. On February 10, 2020, father got into a verbal fight with paternal grandfather and left with Kai. Father, mother and Kai

2 then started living together again as they moved from motel room to motel room.

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