B.C. v. Super. Ct.
Petitioner B.C. (mother) is the mother of a baby boy, I.L. (the child), who was born in July 2012 and immediately removed from mother’s care based on her substance abuse and mental health issues and failure to reunify with the child’s sibling born fifteen months earlier. In this writ petition, mother challenges the juvenile court’s decision to take jurisdiction of the child under Welfare and Institutions Code, section 300, subdivision (b).[1] Specifically, mother argues substantial evidence does not support the juvenile court’s true findings that mother’s substance abuse and mental health issues constituted a substantial risk of detriment to the child. However, mother does not address the other bases for the jurisdictional order, that is, the court’s true findings on failure-to-protect allegations that mother failed to reunify with the child’s year-older sibling and failed to obtain prenatal care for the child. As discussed below, because these two unchallenged true findings adequately support the court’s jurisdictional order, we deny mother’s writ petition.
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