In re G.F. CA2/8

Filed 3/11/15 In re G.F. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.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 EIGHT

In re G.F., a Person Coming Under the B258411 Juvenile Court Law.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY (Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND Super. Ct. No. DK04725) FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

GARY F.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Daniel Zeke Zeidler, Judge. Dismissed.

John L. Dodd, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Appellant.

Mark J. Saladino, County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, and Jeanette Cauble, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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The dependency court issued jurisdiction and disposition findings and orders concerning G.F. and several of his half-siblings. G.F.’s father, Gary F.,1 filed the present appeal to challenge the orders as they affect his parental relationship with G.F. We dismiss the appeal. FACTS J.Y. (Mother) is the parent of five children: A.P. born in 1996; T.M. born in 1997; J.C. born in 2000; A.C. born in 2001; and G.F. born in 2006. The only child involved in the current appeal is G.F. Father is not the parent of any of Mother’s other children. In late 2013, Father was incarcerated, and all of the children lived with Mother. At that same time, Mother lived with J.C., Sr., the father of J.C. and A.C. In November 2013, the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) received a referral reporting that J.C., Sr. had sexually abused A.C. DCFS and the Los Angeles Police Department investigated the allegations. DCFS interviewed A.C. and the other children, including G.F., who stated that he had not been physically abused in the family home, and did not know about the alleged sexual abuse. In April 2014, DCFS filed a petition pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 on behalf of all five children.2 The dependency court detained the children, and ordered them to remain in Mother’s custody under DCFS’s supervision. Further, the court appointed counsel to represent Father, who, as noted above, was then incarcerated. On July 1, 2014, the dependency court held a joint jurisdiction and disposition hearing. Father, then recently released from prison, appeared at the hearing. DCFS filed an amended petition to delete A.P., in recognition that he was then 18 years old, and to clarify the alleged bases for jurisdiction. The court sustained allegations in the amended petition as follows. Pursuant to section 300, subdivision (a), “serious physical harm,” the court found that J.C., Sr. physically abused J.C. by striking him with belts. Further, that such physical abuse was