In re A.L. CA2/8

Filed 2/13/26 In re A.L. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 A.L., et al., Persons Coming B345506 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ Los Angeles County Superior LOS ANGELES COUNTY Court No. 24CCJP03169A-E DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

Y.L.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Philip L. Soto, Judge. Affirmed. Jamie A. Moran, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Alik S. Ourfalian, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

____________________ A mother of five children challenges orders assuming jurisdiction over three of the children and removing all of them from her custody. We affirm. Statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I Because only the mother appealed, we focus on facts concerning her. The children came to the attention of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services in August 2024 after the mother’s boyfriend (W.R.) stabbed the mother twice in her thigh outside her home and threatened her with a bullet to the head. Police arrested W.R., who later admitted the stabbing and methamphetamine use. W.R. is the father of the mother’s two youngest children, who were 18 months and one month old and were in the home at the time of the stabbing. The mother’s three oldest children are all teenagers. The father of these children is R.L. He and the mother were divorced, and they shared custody of their three children. The children alternated between their parents’ homes each week. The Department’s investigation revealed earlier acts of violence by W.R. Once, he threw a brick into the mother’s home, hitting one of the children. He vandalized this home. He shot the maternal grandfather’s truck with a BB gun while the mother and one child were inside it. He punched the mother in the head once and grabbed her by the hair when she was pregnant. There were prior dependency referrals from 2023 involving violence by W.R. and drug use by the mother. In March 2023, one of the children reported finding “a crack pipe with crack in it, a lighter and utensils” in the bathroom of the mother’s home.