In re L.B. CA4/1

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COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

In re L.B., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. D082698 SAN DIEGO COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, (Super. Ct. No. EJ4088B) Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

D.S.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Alexander M. Calero, Judge. Affirmed. William D. Caldwell, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Claudia G. Silva, County Counsel, Lisa M. Maldonado, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Evangelina Woo, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

INTRODUCTION D.S. (Mother) appeals the juvenile court’s dispositional order denying her reunification services for L.B. Mother’s sole contention on appeal is that substantial evidence did not support the court’s finding that she “failed to subsequently make a reasonable effort to treat the problems” that led to

L.B.’s half-sibling’s removal.1 We affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The dependency proceedings before us commenced in June 2023, when L.B. was three years old. The San Diego Health and Human Services Agency

(Agency) filed a Welfare and Institutions Code2 section 300, subdivision (b), petition for L.B. based on a May 2023 incident in which Mother became “volatile” and “erratic,” and “threw [L.B.] into the passenger seat” of her car. (§ 300, subd. (b).) Mother threatened to “end it all” and then left, with L.B. unattended and inadequately supervised. At the contested July 2023 dispositional hearing, the court denied Mother reunification services because the court previously terminated her parental rights for L.B.’s half-sibling and she failed to make a reasonable effort to treat the substance abuse issues that led to the half-sibling’s removal. (§ 361.5, subds. (b)(10) & (b)(11).) A. L.B.’s Half-sibling’s Dependency Matter L.B.’s older half-sibling was removed from Mother’s custody in October 2016. At that time, Mother admitted to a six-year addiction to controlled substances. Specifically, she admitted to being a daily user of methamphetamine. Her history with substances included the use of