In re E.G.
Annotate this CaseE.G. was born in 2015 while his then 22-year-old mother, K.K. (mother), and 34-year-old father, R.G., were incarcerated. After his birth, mother arranged to have an unrelated female take E.G. home from the hospital. About two months later, Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) received a welfare report concerning the state of this woman’s home. SSA substantiated the report, and SSA took E.G. into protective custody. SSA placed E.G. with his maternal grandmother in June 2015, and he seemed to be doing well. Grandmother facilitated weekly supervised visits between E.G. and mother during her incarceration. Mother was happy about E.G.’s placement and expressed the desire to continue regular visitation. She took a parenting class, worked through a parenting handbook, and passed her GED while incarcerated. SSA challenged the juvenile court’s order granting reunification services to the mother. SSA argued the court should have bypassed reunification, citing Welfare and Institutions Code section 361.5, subdivision (b)(13). In rejecting SSA’s argument, the court decided drug treatment ordered as the result of a deferred entry of judgment was not "prior court-ordered treatment" for purposes of section 361.5, subdivision (b)(13). The Court of Appeal found "no principled difference between drug treatment ordered pursuant to Penal Code section 1000 (PC1000) and any other drug treatment ordered by a court during unrelated criminal proceedings. Accordingly, the Court reversed reversed the judgment and remanded the case for the juvenile court to reconsider its ruling in light of PC1000 as “court-ordered treatment” as contemplated by section 361.5, subdivision (b)(13).
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