In re M.N.
This is an appeal by Cinthia S. (hereafter mother) from the trial courts orders under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26[1]terminating her parental rights with respect to two-year-old S. and one-year-old M. Because mothers only claim on appeal concerns the adequacy of notice that San Bernardino County Department of Childrens Services (DCS) gave under the Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.) (ICWA), we will not recount the factual or procedural details of the underlying dependency. Instead, we note only that the children were both removed from mothers custody, and DCS filed section 300 petitions with respect to each child after then one-month-old M. suffered a fractured skull, a fractured femur, and a fractured clavicle while in the care of mother.
Mother contends that the order terminating her parental rights must be reversed because the notice DCS gave to the Pawnee tribe after mother indicated that she might have Pawnee heritage did not include information about the childrens maternal great-grandparents and also did not include complete information about their maternal grandfather. Court conclude that mothers claim lacks merit for reasons we now explain. Therefore Court affirm the order terminating mothers parental rights.
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