In re Em. H. CA2/4

Filed 10/3/14 In re Em. H. CA2/4 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FOUR

In re Em.H., a Person Coming Under the B254160 Juvenile Court Law. LOS ANGELES COUNTY (Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND Super. Ct. No. CK57697) FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

E.H.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Veronica McBeth, Judge. Affirmed. Lori Siegel, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. John F. Krattli, County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, William D. Thetford, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ______________________________

E.H. (mother) appeals the juvenile court’s dispositional order, which removed her youngest child, Em.H., from her custody. Mother contends the order is not supported by substantial evidence, and the court did not consider reasonable means available to protect the child while in mother’s custody. We disagree and affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY The family’s extensive dependency history has been the subject of several opinions.1 We borrow relevant facts from the most recent one. “[I]n 1998 father was convicted of willful cruelty to mother’s child from another relationship, and mother failed to reunify with that child. The parents’ two oldest children together, A.H. and Wi.H., were dependents of the court between 2005 and 2007, due to father’s earlier abuse of their half sibling. . . . [¶] Since 2011, the parents’ six oldest children have been the subjects of an open dependency case, based on sustained allegations that father hit A.H. in the face with his fist, mother failed to protect her, and both parents regularly gave her beer to drink. S.H., the parents’ seventh child, was declared [a] dependent of the court after his birth in 2012, based on the sustained allegations in his older siblings’ case. . . . In March 2013, the court terminated reunification services as to the six older children, but did not return the children to the parents’ custody due to their insufficient progress, father’s disruptive behavior through most of the case, and mother’s continued submissiveness to his control. . . .” (E.H. v. Superior Court, supra, at pp. 2–3.) In April 2013, five-year-old J.H. and three-year-old Wa.H. reported that during an unmonitored visit at mother’s home, father showed them a gun and threatened to kill their foster mother. Two-year-old El.H.’s foster mother reported him saying that father hit him, mother, and Wi.H., but the social worker could not get a meaningful statement from