In re D.G. CA4/2

INTRODUCTION

J.G., father, appeals from a judgment of the juvenile court terminating his parental

rights to his daughter. Father argues the juvenile court should have applied the beneficial

parental bond exception. Mother has not appealed. After thoroughly reviewing the

record, we reject father‟s appeal and affirm the judgment.

II

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

A. Detention

CFS2 filed an original dependency proceeding (§ 300) in September 2011,

concerning D.G., born in December 2010. The petition alleged the parents had failed to

protect the child because of the parents‟ substance abuse and domestic violence and

because mother engaged in a physical altercation with sheriff‟s deputies when she was

detained on September 23, 2011, while driving with the nine-month-old child

unrestrained in her lap instead of in a car seat. At the time she was detained, mother was

breastfeeding and the child tested positive for amphetamine. Mother admitted using

methamphetamine the day before. The child also had an undetected cardiac condition

requiring treatment and surgery.

1 All statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless stated otherwise.

2 San…