In re D.Z. CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Detention and petition The juvenile court ordered father’s children D. (born June 2005) and Juan Jr. (born July 2009) detained on August 29, 2011, along with their half-siblings, father’s stepdaughters, Adriana (born March 1994), J. (born December 1995), and A. (born September 2001). On October 13, 2011, the court ordered the detention of father’s youngest child Di., born after the other children were detained. The children were released to mother and remained in her home. DCFS filed petitions to bring the minors within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 300.1 After prior petitions were dismissed, a first amended petition (petition) alleged that father had sexually abused J. in 2009, by removing her clothes and placing her on a hotel bed (the San Diego incident), and again in April 2011, by climbing on her back, placing his penis on her buttocks, and masturbating (the second incident); and that father had physically abused J. in June 2011, by slapping her, resulting in a laceration and bleeding (the slapping incident). The petition also alleged that J.’s mother Nadia C. (mother) failed to adequately protect the…