In re E.S. CA2/8

Filed 2/25/16 In re E.S. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

In re E.S., a Person Coming Under the B266030 Juvenile Court Law.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY (Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND Super. Ct. No. DK10836) FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

ERICKA M.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Philip L. Soto, Judge. Affirmed.

Jack A. Love, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Mary C. Wickham, Interim County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, and Jessica Paulson-Duffy, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. __________________________

Ericka M. (mother) challenges juvenile court orders asserting dependency jurisdiction over her son, E.S., and removing him from her custody. We affirm the juvenile court orders. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In 2015, mother had primary custody of 11-year-old E.S.. Eric S. (father) had overnight visits every other weekend. However, mother and father were litigating custody issues in family court. E.S. came to the attention of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in March 2015, when mother was involuntarily hospitalized pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 5150.1 According to hospital records, maternal grandmother and maternal aunt took mother to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation on March 10. The grandmother and aunt reported that since January 2015, mother had been “hearing voices, seeing things, and acting paranoid.” Mother repeatedly complained of panic attacks. In the two weeks before the hospital visit, her symptoms had grown much worse. Notes from the hospital’s psychiatric assessment indicated mother was “observed responding to internal stimuli during examination, and [she] stated multiple times during the interview that she was hearing people when there [were] no people around talking. [Patient] reports that she has been hearing non-stop loud voices ‘terrorizing’ her. She reports voices of people putting her down, and telling her things like, ‘fuck you bitch,’ and ‘you’re a racist,’ and voices of people telling her they are going to use knives on her. She also reports that it feels like people have been stalking her recently.” Mother admitted she had hung sheets in all of her windows to keep people from looking in. She had recently seen a man walking around her apartment. The maternal aunt reported it had been difficult to get in touch with mother in the previous two weeks because she was “barricading herself in her house due to being paranoid.” Mother had not slept for three days. She had seen a psychiatrist for the first time one or two months earlier. The psychiatrist prescribed a series of antidepressants,