In re T.F. CA2/5

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

A. The family Father has 15 or 16 children with six different women. Of those, father has five children with A.B. (mother)—namely, twins T.F. and T.F., Jr. (born May 2019); Tr.F. (born September 2020); and twins Di.F. and De.F. (born February 2022). Two of the children have special needs.

All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 B. Prior dependency case In April 2020, the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) filed a petition asking the juvenile court to exert dependency jurisdiction over father and mother’s two oldest children (the older twins) and, after Tr.F. was born, a supplemental petition reaching him, both on the grounds that (1) father and mother had engaged in a violent altercation where father pushed mother and mother pepper-sprayed father, thereby exposing T.F. to the toxic pepper spray, and (2) mother and father had a “history of substance abuse” and were “current abuser[s] of marijuana,” which rendered them “incapable of providing care for the children” and placing the children “at risk of serious physical…