In re Tyrone J. CA2/8

Filed 11/22/21 In re Tyrone J. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

In re Tyrone J., a Person Coming B311180 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 20CCJP06820A DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

TYRONE J.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Tamara E. Hall, Judge. Affirmed. Emery El Habiby, 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.

____________________ The juvenile court assumed jurisdiction over a young boy after sustaining allegations against the boy’s father. The allegations concerned the father’s sexual abuse of the boy’s half sister and the resulting risk of harm to the boy. Finding substantial evidence to support jurisdiction, we affirm. Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I The boy is six years old. He is autistic and nonverbal. He lived with his mother and, until this matter arose, his father. He has a sister and several half siblings, some of whom live with the maternal grandmother as a result of other dependency proceedings. We need not dwell on the family’s dependency history. Nor do we discuss recent allegations against the boy’s mother. Instead, we focus on the boy, his father, and one of the boy’s half sisters (D.B.), who is now 15. This appeal concerns them. The Department of Children and Family Services filed this case after receiving a referral claiming the father sexually abused D.B. The petition detailed incidents of the abuse and alleged the boy was at risk of serious physical harm and sexual abuse. The Department’s investigation showed the following. D.B. lived with the maternal grandmother. She would visit her mother’s home and sometimes stayed overnight. D.B. was visiting her mother in November 2020. The mother heard her son scream from the living room. She came in and saw the father crawling on the floor “extremely close to” D.B. He remained there supposedly looking at a toy “for an excessive amount of time.” D.B. remarked that he was “looking at her