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FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Family Maintenance – March to July 2012

On March 7, 2012, the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services

(DPSS) filed a section 300 petition alleging mother’s mental health issues and history of

failure to regularly take her prescribed medication prevented her from providing regular

care to the child. The petition also alleged mother failed to reunify with seven previous

children, has a history of abusing controlled substances, has a criminal history for battery,

1 All section references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 assault and drug charges, and has a history of engaging in domestic violence with the

child’s father.

In the detention report filed March 7, 2012, DPSS recommended the juvenile court

allow mother to retain custody of the child and to provide her with family maintenance

services. Mother had been staying at a sober living home for the previous few weeks and

it was reported that she was not taking her medications and was constantly cussing and

screaming at the child and “saying scary things” to her like calling her the anti-Christ and

telling people the child needed to be…