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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

After child 2 was born in March 2011, he and his two-year-old brother child 1 were taken into custody by SSA because child 2 and his biological mother1 tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana. The children were placed with grandmother. Six years earlier grandmother had adopted the children‟s half-brother, R.S., who had been born with methamphetamine in his system, after mother failed to complete her service plan. In 2006 there were two child abuse registry referrals against grandmother about R.S. In one mother was driving while intoxicated with R.S. in the car. Grandmother advised she allowed mother to take R.S. without supervision because mother had been taking substance abuse classes for about six months and grandmother did not believe she had been on drugs or drinking. A dependency petition was filed and

1The biological mother and father‟s parental rights were terminated before these proceedings but for ease of reference we will refer to them as mother and father.

2 later dismissed after grandmother was put on an intense supervision program. R.S. was returned to her custody. When asked about this in 2011, grandmother explained she had…