In re T.L. CA2/4

Filed 4/27/16 In re T.L. CA2/4 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.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 T.L. et al., Persons Coming Under the B266130 Juvenile Court Law. LOS ANGELES COUNTY (Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND Super. Ct. No. DK07393) FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

S.G.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Julie Fox Blackshaw, Judge. Affirm. Elizabeth Klippi, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Mary C. Wickham, County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, Jacklyn K. Louie, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ______________________________

S.G. (mother) appeals the juvenile court’s jurisdictional and dispositional orders regarding her daughters T.L. and A.L. She argues that her engaging in acts of prostitution did not support the assertion of jurisdiction and removal of the children from her custody because it did not expose the children to risk of physical harm. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 300, subd. (b); 361, subds. (c) & (d).)1 We disagree and affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY In September 2014, the vice detail of the Long Beach Police Department responded to an ad on a website known for advertising prostitution services and arrested mother and an unrelated minor, A.F., for engaging in prostitution in a hotel room. Two men were arrested outside the hotel. One of them, M.G., was in a car with T.L. (born 2010) and A.L. (born 2012). The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) took the children into protective custody and filed a section 300 petition on their behalf. In his interview with police, M.G. at first claimed the children were his and their mother lived out of state, but he later admitted the children were mother’s. Mother identified M.G. as her boyfriend but maintained he was not her pimp, even though he had reserved hotel rooms and posted ads for her services online. In mother’s phone, M.G.’s contact information appeared under the name “My King.” According to mother, the two had brought T.L. and A.L. from Sacramento to Disneyland, and M.G. looked after the children while mother prostituted herself on the trip. Mother admitted to working as a prostitute since she was 17 years old, but insisted she did not know A.F. was underage.2 The children’s maternal grandmother and aunt told DCFS that they cared for the children when mother worked as a prostitute in Sacramento. The children’s father, who lived out of state, claimed neighbors had told him that mother “got dudes running in and out of the house.” The older of the girls, T.L., stated that whenever mother “[w]ork[ed]