G.P.
Sacramento County Department of Health & Human Services v. G.P.
Opinion
lead Opinion
Cantilsakauye, J.
*978 Opinion
The minor children, B.D. and X.H., appeal from an order of the juvenile court dismissing a petition (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 300) 1 2 filed on behalf of X.H. and a subsequent and supplemental petition (§§ 342, 387) filed on behalf of B.D. The minors contend the trial court erred in sustaining section 355 objections to four witness statements and that even if the objections were properly sustained as to all of the witness statements, mother’s admission provided independent corroboration sufficient to sustain the petitions. We shall reverse and remand.
RELEVANT FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
B.D. was bom on May 17, 2004, to mother, G., herself a dependent child at the time. On May 19, 2004, the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) filed a section 300 petition alleging mother had emotional problems, which had resulted in her hospitalization. The detention report indicated mother had had several “psychiatric hospitalizations in 2002 for suicidal ideation, depression, self-mutilation, hearing voices, and hallucinations. 1 ^ Furthermore, the minor mother fails to follow through with taking psychotropic medications. Additionally, the…