In re Genesis R. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Detention and Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 petition In November 2018, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) filed a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 300, subdivision (b), alleging that Genesis was at substantial risk of serious physical harm because of mother’s substance and methamphetamine abuse; Genesis’s positive toxicology screen for amphetamine at birth; mother’s mental and emotional problems, which had required past hospitalization; father Alain R.’s (father)2 amphetamine and methamphetamine abuse; and father’s mental and emotional problems, including a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. Father is not a party to this appeal.

2 The Department obtained a removal warrant to detain Genesis from both parents. At the November 29, 2018 detention hearing, the juvenile court ordered Genesis detained from father and released to mother. The court accorded father monitored visits not to include mother at a neutral location. In January 2019, the Department filed an ex parte application pursuant to section 385 to…