In re W.C. CA2/3

Filed 5/26/21 In re W.C. CA2/3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.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 THREE

In re W.C. et al., Persons Coming B309129 Under the Juvenile Court Law. _____________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND (Los Angeles County FAMILY SERVICES, Super. Ct. No. 20CCJP05003A,B,C) Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

FRANCISCO C.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Julie Fox Blackshaw, Judge. Reversed in part with directions. Gina Zaragoza, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, Acting County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Kimberly Roura, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. _________________________

Francisco C. (father) appeals from a dispositional order of the juvenile court that requires him to participate in an anger management program as a condition of reunifying with his three children. Father contends that there was no evidence before the juvenile court that he had difficulty controlling his anger, and thus the requirement to complete an anger management program was an abuse of the juvenile court’s discretion. We agree with father that the order to complete an anger management program is not supported by the evidence, and thus we will strike that portion of the dispositional order. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Father and Rosario L. (mother) have three children together: Wilmer C. (born in May 2014), Luisa C. (born in July 2018), and Yareli C. (born in October 2019). The parents met and married in Guatemala. In 2019, the family attempted to enter the United States; mother and the children were able to enter, but father was deported. Father has been living in Guatemala since his deportation. A. Detention In September 2020, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) received a report that mother had hit six-year-old Wilmer on the face with a hanger, causing linear marks on the side of his face and a lump on the side of his head. According to the caller, mother hit Wilmer every two or three days, causing him to sustain marks and bruises. Police officers went to the family’s home on September 18, 2020 and arrested mother for corporal injury to a child. A social worker who accompanied the officers observed that Wilmer had what appeared to be two separate injuries—a welt and bruising on his face, and a scratch and welt on his forearm and bicep. No