In re J.M. CA2/5

FACTS PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Mother has two children at issue in this appeal—son (born 2008), and daughter (born 2012). Each has a different father. Mother and daughter’s father (father) have been involved in two prior dependency proceedings due to their domestic violence, mother's alcohol abuse, and father's use of methamphetamine. In each of those prior proceedings, daughter was released to mother’s custody. Son has lived with his father (nonoffending) at all relevant times consistent with a custody order granting him sole physical custody with visits for mother. Although a court had ordered mother not to bring daughter’s father to mother’s visits with son, mother disregarded that instruction, resulting in the requirement that a professional monitor be present for visits. Mother has called the police on multiple occasions to make false reports that son was suicidal and home alone and that his father was not feeding him. She has also called the police when son “did not respond to her messages.” Mother sometimes sends son “long

We grant mother’s request for judicial notice of the juvenile court’s minute order dated April 15, 2024.

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