In re T.S. CA2/5

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Department Investigates the Minors’ Welfare 1. The referral and initial interviews In September 2020, an anonymous neighbor contacted a child protection hotline to report an incident involving Mother and her family. According to the report, Mother hit one of her sons while drunk and she encouraged her daughter to hit him as well. The reporting party also stated Mother smokes marijuana with her son on the front porch of her home.

1 These were the children’s ages at the time of the jurisdiction hearing. 2 Mei.S. was named in the original petition but, for reasons we need not discuss, he was not included in the petition the court adjudicated.

3 A social worker from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) visited Mother’s residence. Mother denied the anonymous report and said she had ongoing conflicts with her neighbors. Mother, who had prior dealings with the Department, said she did not want to be involved with the Department again. She declined to sign consent forms, provide the social worker with information, or allow the social worker to speak to her children. Mother later reconsidered and allowed the social…