In re L.L. CA3

FACTS

The case was referred to Placer County Department of Health and Human Services (Department) by the Placer County Family Law Court (§ 329) in 2011 because the minor’s therapist said that six-year-old L.L. was unable to make progress in resolving her emotional problems in therapy due to the ongoing parental conflict. The minor’s anxiety and stress produced increasingly severe behaviors as the minor tried to control her environment. A psychological evaluation ordered by the Family Law Court concluded the parents had no coparenting abilities and each believed the other was abusing the minor sexually or emotionally. The evaluation recommended that if the parents were unwilling or unable to learn to coparent, then the minor should be placed in the primary custody of one parent. Following an investigation, the Department filed a petition in April 201l alleging the minor came within the provisions of section 300, subdivision (c), because the minor was suffering, or at risk of suffering, serious emotional damage as a result of parental conduct. The court ordered the minor detained and permitted each parent to have supervised visits with the minor two to three times a week. At the…