In re Isabella D. CA2/3
Opinion
Opinion
Kitching, J.
INTRODUCTION
Appellant Allen D. (father) challenges the dependency court’s jurisdictional findings under Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 300, subdivisions (b) and (d) with respect to his four-year-old daughter, Isabella D., and two-year-old son, Allen D., Jr. The evidence showed that father approached his 11-year-old stepdaughter wearing only his underwear, offered to pay her $8.00 to consume an alcoholic beverage, then lay down on a bed next to the minor and told her to touch his penis, all while the two dependent children were watching television in an adjoining room. Father attributed his misconduct to the influence of alcohol. Though father does not challenge many of the sustained grounds for dependency jurisdiction, he nevertheless argues the evidence was insufficient to find a danger that he would sexually abuse his biological children or that his abuse of alcohol posed a risk to the children’s physical or mental well-being. Father also argues the evidence was insufficient to remove the dependent children from his physical custody. We reject these contentions and affirm.