In re S.C.
In September 2006, respondent Department of Children and Family Services detained almost three-year-old S. and one-year-old Si. when their two-month-old brother, Sean, was rushed to the hospital not breathing and without a pulse after he had lodged himself between the mattress and headboard of his mothers bed. Two days later, doctors declared Sean brain dead and removed him from life support. Following Seans death, the department filed a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 alleging mother Shaunas neglect of Sean leading to his death put S. and Si. at risk of harm. The petition further alleged mother had a history of substance abuse, including methamphetamine use that rendered her incapable of caring for the girls. And finally, the petition alleged that appellant Mark B., the girls alleged father he was not named on their birth certificates and had not supported them financially nor helped in their upbringing had a history of criminal convictions that created a risk of harm to the girls from his failure to protect them.
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