In re K.M. CA4/3

FACTS

Minor was born in April 2021 with methamphetamine in her system. Mother admitted to having used methamphetamine two days before giving birth. She had abused it throughout her pregnancy. As a result of the positive toxicology screen, the court detained minor. Mother was granted supervised visitation. Minor was subsequently placed with a foster parent. At the jurisdictional hearing, the court found mother had an unresolved substance abuse problem involving alcohol, heroin, and methamphetamine. The court sustained the dependency petition under the Welfare and Institution code, section 300, subds. (b)(1) (failure to adequately supervise or protect the minor) and (j) (neglect of 1 sibling). The court denied reunification services to mother on the ground that she had been offered reunification services in a dependency proceeding involving minor’s half sibling in 2019, but failed to reunify. (See Welf. & Inst. Code, § 361.5, subd. (b)(10)- (11) [reunification services may be bypassed where parent failed to reunify with sibling or had parental rights terminated as to sibling].) 1 All statutory references are to the Welfare and Institution code unless stated otherwise.

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