In re L.A. CA2/3

Filed 12/31/14 In re L.A. CA2/3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.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 L.A., a Person Coming Under the B257116 Juvenile Court Law. _____________________________________ (Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT Super. Ct. No. CK41679) OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

N.A.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Julie Fox Blackshaw, Judge. Affirmed. Janette Freeman Cochran for Defendant and Appellant. Richard D. Weiss, Acting County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, Tyson B. Nelson, Deputy County Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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N.A. (mother) appeals from the June 3, 2014 dispositional order of the juvenile court which removed her daughter (L.A. or the minor) from her home and granted mother unmonitored visitation.1 Mother’s sole contention is that the juvenile court lacked substantial evidence to support the minor’s removal from her home. We conclude the removal order is supported by substantial evidence and affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND On November 26, 2013, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed the instant section 300 petition on behalf of the minor (born in 1999), alleging, inter alia, failure to protect (id., subd. (b)). The petition asserted: on prior occasions, mother created a detrimental and endangering home environment for the minor in that mother allowed the minor’s adult sibling, A.A., and A.A.’s male companion, Ramon, who the mother knew to have a history of engaging in violent altercations, to reside in the minor’s home and to engage in violent altercations in the minor’s presence (count b-1); and that on prior occasions, mother allowed Ramon, who mother knew to have sexually abused A.A. between the ages of 15 and 17, to reside in the minor’s home (count b-2). On November 26, 2013, the juvenile court ordered the minor detained from mother’s custody. On April 9, 2014, mother pled no contest and the juvenile court sustained counts b-1 and b-2 of the petition. At the dispositional hearing on June 3, 2014, mother’s counsel argued that minor should be returned to mother’s home because Ramon “is in jail and will not be having any access, not to [L.A.] and not to any other minor for quite a long time.” Mother also submitted certificates that she had completed courses in parent education and sexual