In re D.A. CA4/2

I. BACKGROUND

In December 2022, plaintiff and respondent Riverside County Department of

Public Social Services (department) filed a dependency petition regarding two of

mother’s children (born August 2010 and May 2012), alleging they came within Welfare

and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (b) (failure to protect) and (g) (no 2 provision for support). The two children have different biological fathers, neither of

whom was part of the household. The petition alleged domestic violence between mother

and her current significant other, W.Y., as well as a “historical pattern of . . . domestic

violence . . . in the presence of her children” based on mother’s past relationship with the

father of the children’s older half-sibling. The petition also alleged unsafe and unsanitary

physical conditions in the family’s home, exacerbated by mother’s use of “controlled

and/or mind-altering substances . . . including but not limited to marijuana.”

Initially, the department did not recommend the children be detained out of

mother’s care; at the time of its December 8, 2022 detention report, W.Y. was

incarcerated on domestic violence charges from an incident with mother in…