In re M.R. CA4/9
Father appeals an order declaring his infant son M.R. a dependent child under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (b)(1). The evidence showed father has an ongoing mental illness. For years he has suffered from auditory hallucinations (some that urge him to hurt people) and, in the month before M.R.’s birth, father attacked his uncle during a psychotic episode, resulting in father’s involuntary hospitalization. Although father’s progress in therapy and compliance with his psychiatric medication regimen warranted M.R.’s continued placement in his physical custody (with the supervision of father’s caretakers), the child’s tender years and the magnitude of potential harm supported the juvenile court’s finding that father’s mental illness continued to pose a substantial risk to the infant. We affirm.
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