A.H. v. Superior Court CA5
Filed 6/21/16 A.H. v. Superior Court CA5
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
A. H., F073440 Petitioner, (Super. Ct. No. 14CEJ300181-2) v.
THE SUPERIOR COURT OF FRESNO OPINION COUNTY,
Respondent;
FRESNO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES,
Respondent.
THE COURT* ORIGINAL PROCEEDING; petition for extraordinary writ review. Mary Dolas, Judge. Elaine Henderson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Petitioner. No appearance for Respondent. Daniel C. Cederborg, County Counsel, and Brent C. Woodward, Deputy County Counsel, for Real Party in Interest. -ooOoo-
* Before Gomes, Acting P.J., Detjen, J. and Franson, J.
A.H. (mother) seeks extraordinary writ relief from the juvenile court’s orders issued at a contested 12 and 18-month review hearing (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 366.21, subd. (f)(1) & 366.22, subd. (a)(1))1 terminating her reunification services and setting a section 366.26 hearing as to her now nine-year-old daughter M.L. Mother contends the juvenile court erred in finding it would be detrimental to return M.L. to her custody and in finding she was provided reasonable visitation. We deny the petition. PROCEDURAL AND FACTUAL SUMMARY In October 2014, the juvenile court exercised its dependency jurisdiction over mother’s two daughters, then 10-year-old J.H. and seven-year-old M.L., after sustaining allegations that mother and her ex-girlfriend doused each other with lighter fluid during a domestic altercation in the presence of the children. The court ordered mother to participate in parenting, substance abuse, mental health and domestic violence services. The court denied reunification services for J.H.’s alleged fathers and for M.L.’s presumed father. The court also ordered a minimum of one weekly supervised visit for mother, J.H. and M.L., and granted the Fresno County Department of Social Services (department) discretion to advance to unsupervised and liberal visitation. At that time, J.H. was in a group home and M.L. was placed with her paternal grandparents with whom she lived intermittently from the age of three months. The juvenile court also ordered that mother’s visits with J.H. be therapeutic supervised visits because of an incident that occurred following a visit with mother in August 2014. J.H. became upset over being in foster care, broke away from mother and the social worker and ran to an underpass where she hit the wall and yelled at the passersby to call law enforcement. She also screamed that the social worker was trying to rape her. Back at her group home, she broke a pencil and stabbed her leg with it. She said she wanted to kill herself and asked to be taken to the hospital. She was
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