In re O.P. CA2/3

BACKGROUND

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) filed a petition on March 25, 2020, alleging (under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (a) and (b)(1))1 that the physical health and safety of four-year-old O.P. and three-year-old M.P. were at risk because of their parents’ domestic violence. Father and Chantal H. (mother) had a history of engaging in violent physical altercations in the presence of the children. On February 10, 2020, father grabbed mother by the back of her neck and pushed her to the ground, resulting in a contusion to mother’s right eye and abrasions to her knee and hand. Father threw an object that shattered the window of mother’s car. Father and mother pushed each other, and father stomped on mother. Father was arrested for intimate partner violence with injury (Pen. Code, § 273.5). Just before 3:00 a.m. on February 11, 2020, a caller told DCFS mother and father lived on and off in a house in North Hollywood and were going through a divorce. On February 10, mother arrived to exchange the children, and father got upset because she was supposed to exchange them a day earlier. Father walked up to mother’s…