In re Ruby R. CA2/8

Filed 12/2/21 In re Ruby R. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 RUBY R., a Person Coming B309614 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 20CCJP00143B DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

M.M.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Lisa A. Brackelmanns, Commissioner. Affirmed. Cristina Gabrielidis, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Peter Ferrera, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________ A father appeals from the juvenile court’s dispositional order regarding his daughter. We affirm. Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I We recount the relevant factual and procedural background. A The father has one daughter with the mother. The daughter, Ruby, is 14. When the father and mother began their relationship, the mother already had a daughter from a previous relationship, Sarai. Sarai is 18. The father acted as a father- figure to Sarai, who did not discover he was not her biological father for many years. The father and mother separated when Ruby was around eight or nine. Sarai had a strained relationship with her mother. In June 2019, she began living with relatives. In November 2019, while living with her aunt, she witnessed a domestic violence incident between the aunt and the aunt’s boyfriend. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services learned of this event and a social worker interviewed Sarai. Sarai said she had a strained relationship with her mother who made negative and belittling comments to her. Sarai had attempted suicide by hanging when she was in fifth grade and by overdosing on pills when she was 15. Sarai also said she had been sexually assaulted by the father when they all lived together, but she did not recall details because it happened when she was young.