C.D.

FACTS

I.

THE PARENTS’ DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TAKES AN EMOTIONAL TOLL ON A.A.

This family has a long history of violence. Father was arrested in 2017 for physically abusing Mother. (In re A.A. (Dec. 16, 2022, E078449) [nonpub. opn.].) Mother obtained a protective order against Father in 2020, who was later convicted of domestic battery. In 2023, in the presence their children, the parents engaged in three “‘brawl[s]’” with other adults in the home. In the third brawl, Mother put her youngest “child down at an unknown location and continued fighting with [a] 17-year-old minor.” “[T]he mother and the minor sustained multiple injuries” and “[F]ather also sustained several injuries including cuts and bruises and was unable to open one of his eyes because of the swelling.” That same year, a fellow tenant “removed the parent’s bedroom door because the father had broken it during a domestic dispute[] between him and the mother.”

2 In 2024, police responded to a fight between the parents and the paternal grandmother, who was the children’s caregiver. The grandmother reported Mother “‘shoved’ [A.A.] into the bathroom” and closed the door on the grandmother’s arm; the grandmother said “‘you…