In re S.A. CA4/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND2

A. The section 300 petition and detention hearing In August 2021, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (the Agency) petitioned the juvenile court under section 300, subdivision (b), on behalf of minor S.A. The Agency alleged there was a substantial risk S.A. would suffer serious physical harm or illness due to Mother’s delusional and paranoid thoughts and her recent attempt to run into oncoming traffic with S.A. and S.A.’s younger half-brother, E.M.

All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise designated.

“In accord with the usual rules on appeal, we state the facts in the manner most favorable to the dependency court’s order.” (In re Janee W. (2006) 140 Cal.App.4th 1444, 1448, fn. 1.)

E.M. is also the subject of the juvenile court proceedings, but because this appeal concerns only S.A., we limit our discussion of E.M. accordingly.

2 At the detention hearing, the juvenile court ordered that S.A. be detained with Mother in San Diego under various conditions, including that Mother reside in maternal grandmother’s home, not be unsupervised with the children…