In re N,F. CA2/3

Filed 12/23/14 In re N,F. CA2/3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.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 THREE

In re N.F., a Person Coming Under B254161 the Juvenile Court Law. _____________________________________ (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. DK01899) LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

B.F.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Carlos E. Vasquez, Judge. Affirmed. Megan Turkat Schirn, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Richard D. Weiss, County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, and Tracey F. Dodds, Principal Deputy County Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent. _________________________

B.F. (father) appeals from the December 27, 2013 jurisdictional and dispositional order of the juvenile court declaring his son (the minor) (born in March 2013) a dependent under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300.1 Father challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain jurisdiction under section 300, subdivision (a), and he contends the juvenile court abused its discretion by removing the minor from father and in requiring his visitation to be monitored. We conclude the record supports the juvenile court’s order and affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND On October 21, 2013, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed a section 300 petition on behalf of the minor, alleging serious physical harm (id., subd. (a)) and failure to protect (id., subd. (b).) The petition alleged the parents have a history of engaging in violent altercations in the presence of the child, and that on October 11, 2013, “the father pushed the mother onto a bed and on top of the child. The father held the mother down by the mother’s wrists inflicting a bruise to the mother’s arm and pain to the mother’s arm and leg. The father struck the mother’s face with the father’s wrists, while the mother held the child, causing the mother and child to fall to the ground, inflicting bruising and redness to the mother’s face. The father threw food at the mother’s head and spat on the mother. On prior occasions, the father pushed the mother. On 10/10/2013, the mother struck the father with a remote, spat on the father and scratched the father’s arms. Such violent conduct on the part of the father against the mother endangers the child’s physical health and safety and places the child at risk of physical harm, damage, danger and failure to protect.” The two counts are based on the same factual allegations.