In re K.G. CA2/8

Filed 9/14/22 In re K.G. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 K.G. et al., Persons Coming B315068 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 21CCJP01113A,B DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

SAMANTHA G.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Mary E. Kelly, Judge. Affirmed. Law Offices of Vincent W. Davis & Associates and Vincent W. Davis for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, Acting County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Melania Vartanian, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

____________________ Samantha G. appeals jurisdictional findings she physically abused her children and a dispositional order removing them from her custody. We exercise our discretion to review her appeal and affirm. Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I Samantha G. is the mother of twin seven-year-old daughters, K.G. and C.G. The father lives in Pennsylvania. A family law order from Massachusetts provided the mother with sole legal and physical custody of the children and the father with a minimum of four weeks visitation per year. The family has a history with child services in Massachusetts. That department had received allegations of neglect and domestic violence between the mother and the maternal grandparents, with whom she and the children lived at the time. In May 2020, the maternal grandfather assaulted C.G. and choked her. The mother stopped him when she heard C.G. screaming and took the girls to the father’s home. In July 2020, the mother moved the children to California, where her boyfriend lives. She said she moved to protect the children from the maternal grandfather. On February 1, 2021, C.G. went to school with her arm in a sling. At first she said she fell, but then said, “My mom told me to lie, my mom pushed me. I was standing on her tablet, and she pushed me, and I fell.” K.G. confirmed the mother shoved C.G. and made her fall after C.G. broke a tablet screen. Both girls reported the mother frequently spanked them hard enough to leave marks and the boyfriend also spanked them. K.G. said she