In re I.G. CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

In re I.G., et al., B326405 Persons Coming Under Juvenile Court Law (Los Angeles County _______________________________ S. Ct. No. 22CCJP04059A, B) LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent

v.

V.G.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Lisa A. Brackelmanns, Commissioner. Affirmed and remanded with directions. Benjamin Ekenes, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Peter Ferrera, Principal Deputy County Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent. _______________________ The juvenile court found on January 10, 2023 that a mother and father had physically abused their minor children Isaiah, then 5, and Isabella, then 8, by striking them with belts and sandals. Only the mother appeals. The court removed the children from the father’s custody and ordered them placed with the mother. The court found that the Department of Children and Family Services had not met its burden to show that the mother currently abused drugs and alcohol. On the record and in the order appealed from, the court struck an allegation that the mother had failed to protect the children from domestic violence by the father. The court, however, did not fully strike this allegation from the amended petition, and so we remand to correct this omission. We otherwise affirm. I The mother and father did not get along. The court thought this was a “high conflict” case, which it certainly was. The court found the father to be the aggressor when it came to domestic violence, and on January 10, 2023, the court issued an order restraining the father from approaching the mother. The children were afraid of the father because of his temper. They felt differently about the mother, even though she too struck Isaiah and Isabella from time to time. The Department received a report about the mother driving under the influence with children in the car. It assigned the case