In re O.M.-P CA2/5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

In re O.M.-P. et al., Persons Coming B311185 Under the Juvenile Court Law.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY (Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN Super. Ct. No. AND FAMILY SERVICES, 20LJJP00259D-F)

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

T.M.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Robin R. Kesler, Judge Pro Tempore. Dismissed. Jesse McGowan, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Veronica Randazzo, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

T.M. (Father) and V.P. (Mother) have three children together: O.M.-P., S.M.-P., and E.M.-P. The juvenile court assumed dependency jurisdiction over the children after finding the parents engaged in violent altercations in the minors’ presence and Father sexually abused one of Mother’s children from another relationship by sending the child sexually explicit videos of Mother. Father noticed an appeal to challenge the sexual abuse jurisdiction finding and the disposition order requiring him to participate in sexual abuse counseling. While Father’s appeal was pending, the juvenile court terminated its jurisdiction over the children with an order giving Mother sole legal and physical custody. We consider whether the unchallenged order terminating jurisdiction renders Father’s appeal of the jurisdiction finding and disposition order moot.

I. BACKGROUND A. Dependency Investigation In addition to O.M.-P. (born in 2014), S.M.-P. (born in 2016), and E.M.-P. (born in 2019), Mother has three older minor children from previous relationships, including M.L.-P. (born in 2007). In early 2020, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) received information that Father physically abused Mother and that Mother and some of the children were sleeping in a car. Mother told a Department social worker that she and the three youngest children lived with Father for a few months at the end of 2019. Mother and Father were not in a relationship at the time, and she moved into the home on the understanding that Father would be moving out. (A 10-year criminal protective order, issued in 2016, prohibited Father from having contact with