In re A.B. CA4/2
The subject of this dependency is mother’s four-year-old daughter, A.B. Mother has two other adult children who are not the subjects of this dependency. Father struggles with mental health issues, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. He takes psychiatric medication, though he often struggles to remain on these medications. Mother had a criminal history, with an active warrant for shoplifting in Arizona. Father also had a criminal history, a misdemeanor trespassing conviction in 2008, and an aggravated trespassing conviction from August 2020. Father received three years’ probation for the latter and was still on probation when these dependency proceedings began.
A. Events Leading to Dependency Proceedings
Between 2019 and November 2021, police responded to domestic violence calls at mother and father’s residence at least 20 times. Father’s probation officer told the department that at some point police were responding to the parents’ home on a weekly basis.
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