In re M.C. CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

Mother has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder, and she reports a history of schizoaffective disorder. She also has struggled with addiction to methamphetamine, but she reports that she has been sober since 2016 after participating in an 18-month rehabilitation program. These proceedings started after then two-year-old M.C. was hospitalized for two days in May 2021.2 According to Mother, she woke up late and had breakfast around 11:00 a.m., and the minor’s father left the home around 12:30 p.m. The minor took a nap in Mother’s bedroom around 1:30 p.m. and woke up at 3:10 p.m. Mother put on cartoons for the minor to watch, but the minor was not interested and left to play with toys in the living room. Mother stayed in her room to rest since she had recently torn a leg ligament. But around five minutes later, she realized she did not hear the minor making noise and went into the living room. Mother found the minor limp and unresponsive in a toy electric car. She called 911 and was taken with the minor by ambulance to the hospital. The minor had hypothermia and poor respiratory drive, symptoms that were…