In re A.A. CA4/2

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

The parents were married and living together with their three daughters, all under

five — Av.A. (Av.), born in 2017; J.A. (J.), born in 2018; and An.A. (An. or baby), born

in 2021.

In May 2021, when An. was four months old, she was taken to a hospital, where

she was found to have a “brain bleed.” The parents had no explanation for this injury.

Children and Family Services (CFS) therefore detained all three children and filed

dependency petitions concerning them. They were placed with a cousin on the father’s

side.

3 At the detention hearing, the juvenile court ordered: “Pending the development of

the case plan, [CFS] shall provide services in order to reunify the child(ren) with the

family.”

In February 2022, at the jurisdictional/dispositional hearing, the juvenile court

found true that:

“While in the care and custody of the mother, . . . [An.] sustained the following

non-accidental injury, . . . brain bleeding, placing the child at substantial risk of further

harm.”

“The mother . . . is suffering from depression, which has impaired her ability to

appropriately care for [An.], placing the child at risk of abuse and/or neglect.”

“[The]…