In re C.I. CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

In re C.I. et al., Persons Coming B310475 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 20CCJP05464A-D DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

S.B.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Martha A. Matthews, Judge. Dismissed. Janette Freeman Cochran, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and William D. Thetford, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________ A mother appeals the juvenile court’s exercise of jurisdiction over her children. We dismiss the appeal as moot. Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. The mother moved from Missouri to California with her four children to resume a relationship with the father of her youngest child. Several months later, the mother called the police because the father had punched her. The police notified the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. The Department filed a petition alleging the father posed a substantial risk of physical injury to the children and the mother failed to protect the children. The juvenile court detained the youngest child from the father and released the children to the mother. At the adjudication hearing, the court sustained the section 300, subdivision (b) allegation against the mother, finding she failed to protect the children from the risks posed by the domestic violence in her relationship with the father. The court granted the mother permission to move back to Missouri with the children. At a dispositional hearing held after the move, the court terminated jurisdiction and ordered no services. The mother appeals the court’s jurisdictional findings, arguing they were not supported by substantial evidence. The Department correctly responds the issue is moot given the court’s termination of jurisdiction.