In re S.B. CA2/7

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Initial Investigation and Detention The family came to the attention of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) on May 7, 2012, when a caller reported that S.B. (then 14 years old) had suffered emotional abuse, general neglect, and physical abuse by father, the paternal grandmother (grandmother), a paternal aunt, and a paternal cousin. The caller indicated that S.B. was living in a dirty house filled with mice, cockroaches and rats. The kitchen had exposed electric wires, a leaking sink and hazardous substances placed on the same shelf as food items. The caller also reported that the paternal aunt had forced S.B. to drink alcohol and had placed a cigarette in S.B.’s mouth, and that grandmother acted violently towards S.B. and pulled S.B.’s hair. Father

Father’s notice of appeal includes both the jurisdictional and dispositional orders made in this matter. However, father has expressly limited his argument on appeal to his claim that the “court should not have even reached a disposition hearing because it should not have even assumed jurisdiction in the first place, but instead, dismissed the dependency…