In re T.R. CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION EIGHT

In re T.R., a Person Coming Under B308203 the Juvenile Court Law.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY (Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN Super. Ct. No. 20LJJP00273A) AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

M.J.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Steven E. Ipson, Juvenile Court Referee. Affirmed. Linda B. Puertas, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Brian Mahler, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ___________________________

Mother M.J. appeals the juvenile court’s dispositional order removing her infant daughter, T.R., from her custody due to domestic violence with father, T.R., Sr. Mother contends no substantial evidence supports the finding that T.R. was in substantial danger, or that there were no reasonable means to protect her other than removal. We affirm. BACKGROUND This family came to the attention of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department) in April 2020, following a March 2020 report of domestic violence between mother and father. At the time of the incident, T.R. was only three months old. Mother is a nonminor dependent who has an open supportive transition services case with the Department. Mother told her transition services social worker that father had punched her in the jaw as she was driving. Maternal grandmother and T.R. were also in the car. Mother had been living with father at the time of the incident but was now staying with maternal grandmother. Mother told the reporting party she already had an active restraining order against father, because of a May 2019 incident where father had kicked and shattered the driver’s window of mother’s car while she was inside. Mother was pregnant with T.R. at the time. The police report from the May 2019 incident noted that mother drove immediately to the sheriff’s station to report the incident. Father was being prosecuted for vandalism, and a criminal protective order had been issued in that case in February 2020.