A.Y. v. Superior Court CA2/6

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SIX

A.Y., 2d Juv. No. B345957 (Super. Ct. Nos.: 1435958-A, Petitioner, 1435959-A, 24JV00090) (Santa Barbara County) v.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY,

Respondent,

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CHILD WELFARE SERVICES,

Real Party In Interest.

A.Y. (mother) petitions for extraordinary writ relief from the juvenile court’s April 28, 2025 orders terminating family reunification services and setting a permanency planning hearing

as to her minor children Ne. R., Na. R., and Z.Y. (Welf. & Inst. Code,1 §§ 366.21, subd. (f). 366.26.) We deny the petition. Facts and Procedural History On February 28, 2024, Santa Barbara County Child Welfare Services (CWS) obtained protective custody warrants for Ne.R. (born in June 2012), Na.R. (born in August 2013), and Z.Y. (born in June 2018) based on allegations of sexual abuse, domestic violence, and substance abuse. A dependency petition was subsequently filed as to all three children alleging failure to protect and abuse of a sibling (§ 300, subds. (b)(1), (j)). CWS also filed an incident report indicating that Z.Y.’s father Michael Y. (father Y.) had been arrested on February 8, 2024 for inflicting corporal injury upon mother while the children were present. In its detention report, CWS set forth allegations that father Y. had also sexually abused both Z.Y. and Na.R. and that mother had failed to protect the children after becoming aware of the abuse. On February 26, 2024, Na.R. disclosed to an adult sibling that father Y. had been sexually molesting her since she was four years old, and had last sodomized her just two days earlier. Mother also admitted Z.Y. had recently told her that father Y. had “touched her on the butt while she was lying in bed” and had asked mother “to put a safety net around her bed to keep her father away.” After mother confronted father Y. about the allegations regarding both children, he “convinced [her] that they were not true.” Mother thereafter did nothing to protect the children from father Y. and “asked [Na.R.’s] adult sibling [to] wait three days to report the abuse to law enforcement[,] to which the adult sibling did not comply.”