In re K.S. CA2/5

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURE3

Overview

K., born with drugs in his system in May 2010 to mother and J. S. (father), was declared a dependent of the court on July 15, 2010. Custody was taken from the parents. No reunification services were ordered for mother, because two older siblings had been dependents of the court, she failed to reunify with them, and she subsequently made no reasonable effort to treat the problems that led to their removal. (§ 361.5, subd. (b)(10).) Parental rights were terminated on August 30, 2012.

Facts and Procedure Relating to the ICWA Finding

At the detention hearing, maternal grandmother advised the dependency court that, when she was a young child, she was told she had an ancestor who died on a Blackfoot Indian reservation. Neither she nor mother was registered with the tribe, and she did not

This is mother’s second appeal. Her first appeal sought review of a July 8, 2011 order denying a section 388 petition for a change of order. She raised no ICWA issue. We affirmed the order. (Opn. filed June 13, 2012, B234692.)

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

We…