In re L.H. CA2/2

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

In re L.H., a Person Coming B329528 Under the Juvenile Court Law. (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 23LJJP00097A)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

DENISE H.,

Defendant and Appellant.

THE COURT:

Denise H. (mother) appeals from the juvenile court’s orders exerting dependency jurisdiction over her three-year-old daughter under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (c), and removing her from her custody. After mother’s appointed counsel filed an opening brief stating that she found no arguable issues (see In re Phoenix H. (2009) 47 Cal.4th 835 (Phoenix H.)), mother filed a supplemental letter on her own behalf. We have evaluated the record as well as the arguments presented in mother’s supplemental letter, conclude there was no error, and dismiss this appeal pursuant to Phoenix H. and In re Sade C. (1996) 13 Cal.4th 952 (Sade C.). FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Mother and Edwin H. (father) are the parents of L.H. (daughter) (born September 2019). Mother and father split as a couple in June 2020, and have been locked in an ongoing dispute over daughter’s custody ever since. In May 2023, the juvenile court exerted dependency jurisdiction over daughter after sustaining an allegation that mother had repeatedly taken daughter to the hospital for forensic evaluations claiming that father had sexually abused daughter (which law enforcement and medical professionals could not substantiate) and had repeatedly examined daughter for evidence of abuse whenever she spent time with father. Because this course of conduct subjected daughter to emotional abuse, including instances in which she would scream and had to be