In re K.D. CA3

BACKGROUND

Because the sole issue on appeal is adoptability of the minors, a detailed recitation of the facts and procedural history, particularly with respect to the parents’ participation and progress in reunification services, is unnecessary to our resolution of this appeal. The Glenn County Health and Human Services Agency (Agency) received a report that seven-year-old minor K.D., who was unaccompanied and nonverbal, walked into the home of an unknown family and was eating food from their refrigerator. The minor was barefoot, dirty, and in a soiled diaper that was too small for her. Mother did not report K.D. missing until two hours after law enforcement received the report. Due to mother’s extensive child welfare history involving neglect of K.D., the Agency determined it was not safe to return K.D. to mother. On June 11, 2019, the Agency filed a dependency petition on behalf of K.D. pursuant to section 300, subdivision (b), alleging K.D. was autistic and had special needs the parents were failing to meet. It was alleged K.D. went to school hungry and filthy, smelling of old urine, wearing soiled diapers, with fleas in her hair. The condition of the parents’ home was…