In re A.L.
In April 2007 the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (the Agency) filed dependency petitions for one-year-old A.L. and three-month-old M.L. because M.L. suffered severe physical abuse inflicted by one or both parents. A.L. and M.L. were detained together in a foster home that later became a placement. At the December 2008 18-month review hearing, the juvenile court continued the foster care placement and set a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26[1] hearing. In April 2009 mother L.N. filed a section 388 petition requesting that the court place A.L. and M.L. with her and vacate the setting of the section 366.26 hearing. In June, the court denied the petition and terminated L.N.'s parental rights to A.L. and M.L. In denying the section 388 petition, the court stated, "This is probably one of the most difficult cases I have had in front of me about return." The court found, by clear and convincing evidence, that there were changed circumstances, but concluded that it could not find, by clear and convincing evidence, that it would be in A.L. and M.L.'s best interests to be returned to L.N. ( 388.)
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