In re Angelina V. CA2/8

Filed 4/28/22 In re Angelina V. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 Angelina V., a Person B311979 Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. Los Angeles County ______________________________ Super. Ct. No. 20CCJP05584A LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

CARLOS V.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Debra Archuleta, Judge. Affirmed. Richard L. Knight, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rodrigo A. Castro-Silva, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Melania Vartanian, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________ Father Carlos V. appeals jurisdictional findings and dispositional orders removing his teenage daughter from his custody and granting him monitored visits. We affirm. Statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I We summarize the factual and procedural background. A Fifteen-year-old Angelina and her younger half sister were living with their mother and the half sister’s father—Angelina’s stepfather. In June 2020, Angelina told her mother the stepfather had touched her inappropriately several times between the ages of 10 and 14. The mother sent Angelina to live with her father. In October 2020, Angelina told her father about the abuse. He took Angelina to a police station to make a report. On October 20, 2020, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services filed a section 300 petition on behalf of Angelina and her younger half sister alleging the stepfather sexually abused Angelina, the mother knew, and the mother did not allow Angelina to report. The juvenile court detained Angelina from the mother and released her to the father. Police arrested the stepfather, and the mother and daughters received a restraining order against him. But by December 2020, the Department was concerned about the father’s “unresolved propensity to commit violent criminal acts.” The father’s criminal record included convictions for disorderly conduct under the influence, spousal battery,