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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In 2012, then one-year-old Ar.V. was detained on allegations of physical abuse and failure to protect. A few weeks later, the minors’ mother gave birth to Y.V. The court declared both minors dependents, removed them from parental custody, and granted reunification services. Ar.V. was placed with her paternal great-grandparents and Y.V. later joined her. During that placement, Y.V. was hospitalized upon sustaining third-degree burns to her body after father, who had liberal unmonitored visitation, bathed her in scalding water. According to the January 2013 detention report, medical staff also found Y.V. had a skull fracture, bruising on her thighs and back of her head, and several rib fractures that were still healing. Police arrested father and charged him with felony child abuse. As

2 police escorted father out of the hospital, “the paternal grandmother ran over and was screaming. Police stepped in front of her and she started yelling for . . . father not to say anything.” She “backed off’ when officers told her she would also be arrested if she did not do so. The court detained both minors pending new placement and subsequent jurisdictional…