In re Leigha W. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

I. Prior Dependency Proceedings Involving Mother

and Leigha’s Sibling and Half Sibling As a minor, Mother was a dependent of the juvenile court. She was adopted by her paternal grandparents as a toddler, after the court terminated Mother’s parents’ rights. At the time the current dependency proceedings commenced in January 2020, Mother lived with her adoptive mother/biological paternal grandmother, Vivian W. In prior dependency proceedings, Mother lost custody of her two older children. In May 2018, the juvenile court sustained a section 300 petition under subdivision (b), making the following jurisdictional findings: (1) Mother’s then-infant daughter A.W. tested positive at birth for marijuana and opiates, and Mother’s

1 Further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 use of illicit drugs endangered the child’s physical health and safety and placed the child at risk of serious physical harm and damage; (2) Mother abused marijuana and opiates, and A.W.’s 2 father, L.W. (Father), failed to protect A.W. and half sibling C.W. (Mother’s two year old son from a prior relationship) from Mother’s substance abuse, endangering the children’s…