In re E.H. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

When the underlying proceedings began, son’s mother G.H (mother) and father had known each other for 10 years. They married in 2017. Son was born in January 2022. 1. Father’s Pattern of Molesting Minor Girls For years prior to son’s birth, father sexually molested several minor female relatives. Father admitted to touching two sisters, maternal grandnieces A.T. and M.T., inappropriately. Although father denied inappropriate conduct with anyone else, during the course of the proceedings below, two additional female

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 minors reported father had molested them and one other female minor reported father sent her inappropriate text messages. a. A.T. and M.T. A.T. and M.T. are mother’s grandnieces. At the time the underlying proceedings began, A.T. was 13 years old and M.T. was 12 years old. For some time prior to the underlying proceedings, they and their family lived in a home on the same property where mother, father, paternal grandmother and paternal step-grandfather lived in a separate house. The girls visited and slept over at mother and father’s home often. When the sexual abuse…