In re P.M. CA4/1

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COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

In re P.M. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. D084765 SAN DIEGO COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, (Super. Ct. Nos. EJ4756B-C) Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

A.M. et al.,

Defendants and Appellants.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Alexander Calero, Judge. Affirmed. Leslie A. Barry, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant, J.W. Konrad S. Lee, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant, A.M.

Claudia G. Silva, County Counsel, Lisa M. Maldonado, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Evangelina Woo, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. J.W. (Mother) and A.M. (Father) appeal from the juvenile court’s order

denying Mother’s Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 388 petition for modification of prior court orders placing their two children P.M. and D.M. with a licensed foster family and terminating Mother’s reunification

services.2 We conclude that the juvenile court committed no error by finding that Mother failed to show her requested modification was in the children’s best interest. Accordingly, we affirm the juvenile court’s order. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Mother began using drugs at 15 years old and reported participating in drug programs before the birth of her three children. She reported being clean for four or five years before relapsing in November 2021, when she began using methamphetamine to increase her energy as the primary caregiver for her two older children, P.M. and B.W., and she also began using fentanyl daily to cope with pain in her leg. According to Mother, she felt “ ‘the weight of the world on [her] and no one was helping [her],’ ” although she received daily childcare from a family member. Mother gave birth to her third child D.M prematurely in February 2022, believing she had suffered a miscarriage months earlier. During her pregnancy, Mother did not receive prenatal care and used fentanyl,