In Re Tracy Z.

After a contested jurisdictional hearing the Sacramento Superior Court, sitting as a juvenile court, sustained petitions alleging the minors Tracy Z., Nicole Z. and Tammy Z. are dependent children within the meaning of Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (a) and (d). (Hereinafter all references to sections of an unspecified code are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.) The petitions alleged and the court found that the minors’ father, Larry Z., committed lewd and lascivious acts upon Nicole, Tracy and Amber P., a neighbor child, and that their mother failed to protect the children from the molestations of their father. The court also found the minors’ parents were now residents of Yolo County and transferred the case to that jurisdiction for dispositional proceedings. (§ 375.)

A dispositional hearing was conducted in Yolo Superior Court, sitting as a juvenile court, and the minors were declared dependent children and removed from the custody of their parents. The father appeals. We shall affirm.

At the time of the proceedings below Tracy was six, Nicole was four and Tammy was two years old.

In June 1985, the minors’ parents called the Sacramento…