In re K.H. CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

In re K.H. et al., Persons Coming Under the B262773 Juvenile Court Law. (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. CK95295)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

A.W.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, D. Zeke Zeidler, Judge. Affirmed. Roni Keller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Mary C. Wickham, County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, and Jacklyn K. Louie, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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In this dependency proceeding, mother A.W. challenges the juvenile court’s jurisdictional and dispositional orders. We affirm. FACTS AND PROCEDURE Mother has three children. Twins K.H. an K.J. were born in 2010, and L.C. was born in 2012.1 Our record contains only limited evidence concerning the children’s medical conditions, which was the subject of another dependency proceeding. A social worker reported that K.J. has a speech problem. There also were reports that mother had been advised K.J. and K.H. had eye conditions and needed special treatment. Apparently mother also had been advised that K.J. needed occupational therapy to learn how to swallow to avoid choking. But at the time those reports were made, mother was not found to have neglected the children. Other documents showed that medical care for K.J., including eye examinations and evaluations, were approved. Additionally, there was evidence the twins received numerous vaccines. In October 2012, a Welfare and Institutions Code2 section 300 petition with the following allegations was sustained: Mother disciplined the children inappropriately by slapping them and throwing them in their cribs. Mother has an unresolved history of substance abuse rendering her unable to provide care for the children. Mother failed to take the children to necessary medical and therapeutic appointments. (The specific medical appointments were not identified in the allegations, and the reports supporting those allegations were not included in our record.) In December 2013, the following supplemental allegations were sustained: Mother has an unresolved history of substance abuse, including marijuana, and currently abuses amphetamine and methamphetamine. Mother failed to participate in her court ordered substance abuse training and failed to submit to random drug testing. Mother failed to provide the twins with necessary medical care. Mother failed to take the children to their