In re E.P. CA2/8

Filed 11/7/23 In re E.P. CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 E.P. et al., Persons Coming B323643; B328498 Under the Juvenile Court Law. ______________________________ Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES COUNTY Super. Ct. No. 22CCJP02052A-C DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

H.P.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Lisa A. Brackelmanns, Commissioner Presiding. Affirmed.

Robert McLaughlin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Navid Nakhjavani, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________ A juvenile court ordered three children to be removed from their father. At a review hearing, the court denied the father’s request to return them to his custody. The father separately appealed the removal order (case No. B323643) and the denial of his custody request (case No. B328498). On our own motion, we consolidate the appeals for the purpose of decision. We affirm. Undesignated statutory citations are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. I The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) filed a section 300 petition alleging the father’s three children were at substantial risk of serious physical harm and sexual abuse because the father sexually abused an unrelated child in May 2022. The three children are the father’s daughter and his two sons. The daughter was seven and the sons were six and four years old when the Department filed the petition. The children’s mother is not a party to this appeal. She and the father broke up in 2020. The mother placed the children in foster care around that time and the children have not seen her since. The father gained sole legal and physical custody of the children beginning in December 2021. The family lived in a homeless shelter until approximately May 2022, when they moved into a home.