In re D.M. CA2/2
On September 14, 2018, DCFS received a referral from the Los Angeles Police Department. The previous day, then six-year-old D.M. was reported missing after mother’s cousin, Victoria E. (Victoria), had picked her up from school. Mother admitted that she had asked Victoria to retrieve D.M., even though mother knew that Victoria habitually used methamphetamines. After Victoria failed to bring D.M. home, neither mother nor the children’s maternal grandmother, Barbara G. (grandmother), could contact her. D.M. was found alone in a park the next day. When attempting to pick D.M. up from the police station, mother failed a field sobriety test and reluctantly admitted that she had recently used methamphetamine. She was promptly arrested for child endangerment and narcotic use, and D.M. and Denise were placed into foster care.
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