L.H.

FACTS

In August 2021, the agency took K.H. into protective custody, and filed a section 300 petition (later amended), based on allegations that (1) mother had serious and unresolved mental health issues that placed the child at substantial risk of abuse or neglect (§ 300, subd. (b)) and (2) mother had failed to reunify with K.H.’s older half-sibling D.M., “due to physical abuse;” mother’s parental rights had been terminated on August 31, 2007 and D.M. had been adopted on June 23, 2008 (§ 300, subd. (j)). The detention/jurisdiction report noted the agency had received a report that mother had been diagnosed with “Bipolar Disorder and possibly Schizophrenia;” she was “not taking medication to stabilize;” she had been observed displaying increasingly irrational and paranoid behavior by family members, school personnel, law enforcement, and agency workers; and she had refused to seek treatment and said her mental health was fine and she had no problems. At the detention hearing, the juvenile court found the child came within sections 300, subdivisions (b) and (j), and ordered the agency to retain custody of the child; the child was placed in the home of his maternal grandmother, who…