In re T.M.

Sacramento County Department of Health & Human Services v. M.M.

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2016 Cal. App. LEXIS 936·2016 D.A.R. 10·209 Cal. Rptr. 3d 391·4 Cal. App. 5th 1214·2016 WL 5787266
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaOctober 4, 2016C081155California2,445 words

Opinion

Opinion

Renner, J.

—M.M. (father) appeals from the juvenile court’s order denying him visitation with the minor T.M. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 300, subd. (b), 360-361.) He contends the trial court applied the wrong standard in finding that visits by father would be detrimental to the minor. We will affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In 2011, when the minor was seven years old, his mother died and he began living with father. On October 29, 2015, an unknown reporter told social services the minor was afraid of his father, who had been punching him. The minor reported to the social worker father had been punching him “for the last five years,” including “whoopings” when the minor got into trouble and “for no reason” at all. For example, one time the minor locked the keys in the car and father responded by punching him 20 times in the chest and arms and hitting him with a belt. Father got mad when the minor made errors in his homework, coughed at night, or cried because he missed his mother. When the minor was eight years old, father hit him “50 times” on his bottom with a belt, while the minor was wearing only his underwear. Father also cursed at the minor and called him names, saying he was “slow and…

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