In re H.D. CA4/2

BACKGROUND

The history of the dependency proceedings leading up the setting of the section

366.26 hearing can be found in the record filed in father’s prior appeal (which we

incorporated into this one on our own motion) and our opinion issued in that appeal (In re

C.D. (Aug. 8, 2021, E076214) [nonpub. opn.]).

Suffice to say here that, in October 2018, respondent Riverside County

Department of Public Services took the child (then seven years old), her twin brother, and

their two-year-old sibling into protective custody after it discovered a number of issues in

their home. Both parents suffered from mental health problems, they engaged in

extensive ongoing verbal and physical domestic violence in the children’s presence, and

they neglected the children. In addition, father’s condition of Traumatic Encephalopathy

contributed to his mental health difficulties, which were sufficiently severe to require

section 5150 holds.

The Department placed the children in a foster home.

In January 2019, the juvenile court sustained the Department’s section 300

petition, declared the children dependents of the court, continued their placement in foster

care, and ordered family…