In re A.K. CA1/4

BACKGROUND

The minor was born premature in September 2016 with a positive toxicology screen for opiates and prenatal exposure to

2 methadone, and he required morphine to treat his withdrawal symptoms. He was hospitalized for the first seven months of his life. In January 2017, while the minor was still hospitalized, the Alameda County Social Services Agency (Agency) filed a dependency petition due to concerns about mother’s 10-year addiction to opiates and the inability of mother and her husband, the minor’s father, to understand the minor’s serious medical condition. When he was released from the hospital in April 2017, the minor was placed in foster care. In late June 2017, the minor was returned to the home, with the Agency providing family maintenance services and father supervising mother. The juvenile court dismissed the dependency case in December 2017. The minor was detained in late March 2018, and the Agency filed a second dependency petition alleging that the minor was a medically fragile child who had been diagnosed with “ ‘oral [a]version, motor delay, global hypertonia, reflux, and [was] G- Tube dependent.’ ” (In re [A.]K. (Aug. 18, 2020, A159443) [nonpub. opn.]…