In re O.H. CA4/2
Opinion
Opinion
INTRODUCTION
Seven-year-old O.H. and five-year-old A.H. were removed from the care of their
parents, Janet H. (Mother) and Jacob H. (Father), by a protective custody warrant after
Father was arrested on charges of possessing child pornography.
Following the children’s removal, the Riverside County Department of Public
Social Services (the Department) filed a dependency petition alleging the children were at
risk of harm based on Father’s possession of child pornography and Mother’s knowledge
or apparent knowledge of it and minimization of the allegations. While the matter was
pending, the foster parents reported that both children were engaging in masturbation,
and that the children had disclosed both that they used to take showers together as a
family and that their parents taught them how to masturbate when they were two years
old.
The parties proceeded to a contested jurisdictional and dispositional hearing. At
the close of the hearing, the juvenile court sustained the petition, removed the children
from both parents, and over the children’s objection, ordered the Department to provide
family reunification services to both parents.