In re Desiree O. CA2/2

Filed 10/3/23 In re Desiree O. CA2/2 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 TWO

In re Desiree O. et al., Persons B319202 Coming Under the Juvenile (Los Angeles County Court Law. Super. Ct. No. 21CCJP05423A-F)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

ELIZABETH A. et al.,

Defendants and Appellants.

APPEALS from findings of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Rudolph A. Diaz, Judge. Dismissed.

Donna Balderston Kaiser, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Elizabeth A.

Christopher R. Booth, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Daniel G.

Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Aileen Wong, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. _________________________

Appellants Elizabeth A. (mother) and Daniel G. (father) appeal from the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings regarding their two shared children, Daniel G. ,Jr., (Daniel Jr., born Apr. 2016) and Destiny G. (Destiny, born Jan. 2019); mother also challenges the jurisdictional findings made as to her four older children, Desiree O. (born Dec. 2007), Andrew O. (born Jan. 2009), Dre.O. (born Feb. 2012), and Michael O. (born Sept. 2013).1 Five months after the parents filed this appeal, the juvenile court terminated jurisdiction and returned the children to parental custody. Accordingly, we dismiss mother and father’s appeals as moot. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND As of October 2021, mother and father were separated. All six children resided with mother. A family law order allowed father unmonitored weekend visitation with Daniel Jr. and Destiny. In June 2021, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) received a referral alleging that when father went to mother’s home to pick up Daniel Jr. and Destiny for a routine visit, he raped mother. Four months later,