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INTRODUCTION

Ma.H. (father) and M.O. (mother) are the parents of four minor children, who currently range in age from 10 and a half to one. After a lengthy jurisdiction and disposition hearing, the juvenile court found that mother had caused severe physical harm to one of the children, and that father reasonably should have known of the harm. The court removed all four children from mother and father’s custody, and denied them reunification services as to the three youngest children. (The court ordered reunification services for both mother and father as to the oldest child.) Mother and father filed separate petitions for a writ of mandate challenging the denial of reunification services; father seeks reunification services as to the three

2 youngest children, while mother seeks reunification services as to only one of the children, now three-and-a-half-year-old R.H. Substantial evidence supports the juvenile court’s findings that father was an offending parent, pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 361.5, subdivision (b)(5), and that reunification services should not be provided to him. (All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.)…