In re Allison F. CA2/4

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FOUR

In re ALLISON F., a Person Coming Under B249261 the Juvenile Court Law. LOS ANGELES COUNTY (Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND Super. Ct. No. CK93184) FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

PAULA F.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Terry T. Truong, Referee. Affirmed. M. Elizabeth Handy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. John F. Krattli, County Counsel, James M. Owens, Assistant County Counsel and Kim Nemoy, Principal Deputy County Counsel for Petitioner and Respondent.

Paula F. challenges jurisdictional and dispositional orders made by the juvenile court in this dependency proceeding in which her infant daughter, Allison F., was declared a dependent of the court. We find substantial evidence of risk to the child to support jurisdiction and no abuse of discretion in the disposition order. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY Mother Paula F. has two children, Richard C. (born in December 2007) and his half-sister, Allison F., (born in January 2013). Mother was 14 years old when she became pregnant with Richard. In June 2012, the dependency court sustained a petition brought by the Department of Children and Family Services (department) finding Richard to be a dependent child because of a history of domestic violence between mother and the child’s father, a six-year history of drug abuse by mother, and the father’s history of substance abuse. Richard was removed from mother’s care. Mother entered a six-month inpatient substance abuse program in May 2012, but did not comply with the program and did not complete it. She claimed to have visited Richard each Tuesday while at that program, but did not do so. She also did not successfully complete an outpatient program, and she failed to appear for seven out of twelve random drug tests from June to December 2012. A children’s social worker conducted an assessment and concluded that the risk of future maltreatment of Allison was high based on mother’s history of drug use, the age of the child, and the case involving Richard. But since mother had been admitted to the Flossie Lewis residential program in January 7, 2013, shortly before Allison was born, the department recommended that Allison remain in mother’s care contingent on mother remaining in her current residential treatment program. The department determined that court intervention was needed to ensure case plan compliance. Mother was uncertain which of two men had fathered Allison. A petition was filed by the department under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300,1 subdivision (b), alleging that Allison is a dependent child because mother’s