In re J.G. CA2/5

I. BACKGROUND

A. Prior Pertinent Dependency History In 2018, a juvenile court asserted dependency jurisdiction over Mother’s daughter, H.R., after sustaining allegations that Mother had a history of engaging in violent altercations in H.R.’s presence. During the investigation into those allegations, Mother admitted to a social worker from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) that she had smoked crystal methamphetamine in the past; she, however, denied drug use at the time. The juvenile court ultimately terminated dependency jurisdiction over H.R. and granted her father sole legal and physical custody of the child. In 2020, the Department filed a dependency petition concerning Mother’s son, D.D., based (among other things) on evidence that he tested positive for amphetamines at birth and that Mother was an abuser of amphetamines and benzodiazepines who likewise tested positive for those substances the day D.D. was born. Mother pled no contest to the petition’s allegations and the juvenile court took jurisdiction over D.D.

1 No findings were sustained as to Minor’s father, B.G. (Father), and he is not a party to this appeal.

2…