In re N.G.
Mother, P.R., appeals from the orders and findings of the juvenile court assuming jurisdiction over her infant daughter, N.G., and removing the child from mothers custody. Mother asserts there is insufficient evidence to support the orders and findings, despite her eight-year history of drug abuse, loss of custody of four older children due to her drug abuse, her methamphetamine use and criminal activity during her pregnancy with the infant, and her failure to test regularly for drugs for the four months leading up to the courts removal order. Mother contends the child was taken into custody at birth after mother tested positive for benzodiazepine, but, as it later became clear, the test was a false positive result due to pain medication the doctors at the hospital gave mother when she was in labor. Mother maintains the court improperly found jurisdiction entirely on the basis of her past history and there was no substantial evidence of any need to keep the infant from mothers custody as of the date of the disposition hearing. Court affirm.
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