In re A.J. CA3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Sacramento) ----

In re A.J. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile C080242 Court Law.

SACRAMENTO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF (Super. Ct. Nos. JD226307, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, JD226308, JD236095)

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

T.G.,

Defendant and Appellant.

T.G., mother of minors A.J. and N.J., appeals the juvenile court’s orders granting father custody of the minors and terminating jurisdiction. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 362.4, 395; all further section references are to this Code.) She contends the juvenile court’s exit order providing her with one supervised visit with the minors per year was an abuse of discretion. We affirm.

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BACKGROUND Mother has six children–Gl.C. (born circa 2000) Ga.C. (born circa 2001), A.J. (born 2005), N.J. (born 2003), T.C. (born 2008) and Z.J. (born 2011). The instant case commenced in 2014 when then 11-year-old N.J. gathered up the courage to report her mother’s ongoing physical abuse to law enforcement. At that time, mother’s two oldest children, Gl.C. and Ga.C., were living with their father and were not made part of the current proceedings. Although T.C. was a subject of the current proceedings, mother’s issue on appeal does not relate to that minor. Mother was provided weekly visitation with T.C. and mother raises no other issue with respect to the exit order for that child. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal as to minor T.C. Additionally, this appeal does not involve mother’s youngest child, Z.J., who was placed with his father and whose case was not transferred to Sacramento County. This appeal involves only the juvenile court’s exit order with respect to minors A.J. and N.J. On November 1, 2014, mother called before coming home and asked N.J. if the house was clean. When she was told it was not, she announced she was going to “whoop all your asses when I get there.” When mother came home, she made A.J., N.J., and T.C. all line up for lashings with a vacuum cord–each receiving 15 to 20. N.J. secretly recorded seven minutes of the beatings on her cell phone. When mother left to get pizza, N.J. called 911. She reported that mother gives at least one of the children a “whoopin” every night and N.J. had “had enough.” Mother was arrested for child abuse. Section 300 petitions were filed in Contra Costa County on behalf of all four minors (A.J., N.J., T.C., and Z.J.), based on mother’s ongoing physical abuse and general neglect. The social worker reported mother had been the subject of 29 referrals to child welfare agencies between 2000 and 2014, and she had previously received reunification services through Sacramento County, eventually reunifying with her children. At the January 8, 2015, contested jurisdiction hearing, the juvenile court found the allegations made against mother true. Minors A.J. and N.J. were in foster care