In re Brooklyn L. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Detention and section 300 petition On May 18, 2012, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) filed a section 300 petition on behalf of two-year-old Brooklyn, alleging that her mother Kayleigh W. (mother)2 left the child with unrelated caretakers without providing for Brooklyn’s ongoing care and supervision. Both parents’ whereabouts were unknown. The Department’s social worker spoke with mother’s former foster mother, Robin S., and Robin’s daughter Samantha, with whom mother had left Brooklyn. Robin reported that when mother was a child, she had been placed as a foster child with Robin’s family and that mother had maintained contact with them throughout the years. Samantha identified father as Brooklyn’s father and reported that mother had moved out of father’s home in March 2011 because of domestic violence. The social worker also spoke with maternal cousin Heather W., who said that mother had lived in her home before moving in with Robin and her family in March

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

Mother is not a party to this appeal. 2 2012. Heather claimed to have helped…