In re Victor L. CA2/7

INTRODUCTION

Natalie C. appeals from the juvenile court’s jurisdiction findings and disposition orders, challenging the court’s findings her three younger children are persons described by Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (a) and (b)(1).1 We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Natalie has three children with Jesus L. (with whom Natalie had been in a relationship for seven years and who did not appeal from the juvenile court’s findings and orders): Victor L. (now seven years old), Anthony L. (now four), and Jesus C. (now two). Natalie has an older teenage daughter (now 17 years old), Dayzie, who has a different father. Jesus has two older children who reside with their mother (not Natalie). The family has a history with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, including a February 2016 referral (substantiated by the Department) against Jesus alleging he took out a gun in a room where his two older children were sleeping and threatened to kill their mother, the children, and himself; a December 2017 petition

Statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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