In re J.R. CA2/8

Filed 9/17/25 In re J.R. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

In re J.R., a Person Coming B338774 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 24CCJP00580A DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

L.E.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Jean M. Nelson, Judge. Affirmed. Owen P. Martikan, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Courtney Fisher, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

A father appeals the juvenile court’s assertion of jurisdiction over his son. We affirm. Undesignated statutory citations are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I Six-year-old J.R. told his mother his father had hit him two days earlier, while he was at his father’s on an overnight stay. The mother saw marks, swelling, and redness on J.R.’s face. J.R. told his mother that his father slapped him because J.R. did not know an answer to a question. J.R.’s teacher saw redness on his face that same day. After J.R. said his father slapped him, the mother called the father to ask what happened. The father replied, “What did he tell you?” The mother took J.R. to the doctor. An emergency doctor wrote J.R. had “three large patches of redness on the left cheek” and “small red dots on the jaw line.” The injury was consistent with a slap to the face. J.R. told the doctor his father slapped him with an open hand, and that his father had slapped him like that before. J.R. could not recall a specific timeframe. Over the next two days, J.R.’s face became more swollen, which the mother documented with photographs. About a week after the incident, a police officer interviewed J.R. The officer did not see any swelling on J.R.’s face, but did see discoloration on his cheek. J.R. told the officer that his father