In re M.T. CA2/1
K.A. (Mother) challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (a), (b)(1) and (d), pertaining to her 10-year-old mildly autistic daughter, M.T. She contends the court erred in sustaining allegations that she failed to protect M.T. from sexual abuse by “a thirteen year old unrelated child,” as defined by subdivisions (b)(1) and (d), and that she placed M.T. at risk of serious physical harm, as defined by section 300, subdivisions (a) and (b)(1), when she twice assaulted M.T.’s maternal grandmother (MGM) in M.T.’s presence. She does not, however, challenge the juvenile court’s true finding under subdivision (b)(1) that, on more than one occasion, Mother left M.T. alone and unattended without adult supervision for as many as six hours, placing her at risk of serious physical harm. Accordingly, as we shall explain, because jurisdiction may be sustained on the bas
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