San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. Sally S.

*1390 Opinion

Sally S. (Mother) appeals orders of the juvenile court declaring her daughters, Savannah M. and Sierra M., dependent children within the jurisdiction of the court. On appeal, Mother contends the evidence is insufficient to support the court’s jurisdictional findings that Savannah is a child described in Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b) 1 and Sierra is a child described in section 300, subdivision (j).

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In April 2003 twin sisters Savannah and Sierra were bom to Mother and David M. (Father).

On November 4, 2004, David R. (David), a family friend whom Father had met at work two years earlier, visited the home of Mother and Father, arriving in the afternoon. David was a 60-year-old father of seven children and had always talked about his children in a loving, fatherly way. When Father arrived home from work at about 3:45 p.m., Mother and David were drinking beer. At about 6:00 p.m., Father and Mother went to a store to buy milk, diapers and more beer, leaving the 19-month-old twin girls in David’s care. 2 When they returned about 20 to 30 minutes later, they saw David changing Savannah’s diaper on the couch.…