In re M.G. CA5
In April 2021, the child was taken into protective custody, shortly after her birth, as a result of mother’s untreated mental health issues and prior stabbing of her infant child in 2011. The department filed a petition alleging the child was at substantial risk of suffering nonaccidental and serious physical harm under section 300, subdivisions (a), (b), and (j). Mother was interviewed by a department social worker regarding potential Indian ancestry prior to the detention hearing, and mother informed the worker that she had Indian ancestry with an unknown tribe. The whereabouts of the child’s alleged father, Michael C., were not known to mother.
None of mother’s living children were in her custody as two siblings were adopted by her cousin, B.W., as a result of dependency proceedings that initiated from the May 2011 stabbing of one of the siblings by mother.
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