In re A.T. CA4/2

INTRODUCTION

Defendant and appellant T.T. (father) is the father of A.T. (hereinafter A.T. or the

child). Father appeals from a juvenile court’s interim order reducing his visits to once a

week, supervised, prior to the contested six-month review hearing. We affirm.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On August 24, 2020, the San Bernardino County Children and Family Services

(CFS) filed a Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 300 petition alleging that the child,

who was two months old at the time, came within the provisions of subdivisions (a)

(serious physical harm), (b) (failure to protect), and (j) (abuse of sibling). The petition

alleged that both father and the child’s mother D.T. (mother)2 repeatedly struck the

child’s half sibling, J.T., with a belt, which resulted in her crying and experiencing pain,

and that such conduct placed the child at risk of physical abuse.

The social worker filed a detention report stating that CFS received a referral

alleging physical abuse and general neglect of J.T., who was 10 years old, by mother and

her live-in boyfriend, father. The referral stated that while father’s biological daughter,

Al.T., was visiting, she heard J.T. “getting beat…