In re J.R. CA2/4

BACKGROUND

A detailed recitation of facts is contained in our prior unpublished opinions, In re J.R. (Nov. 2, 2020, No. B299814)

1All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 (nonpub. opn.) (J.R. I) and In re J.R. (July 22, 2021, No. B307228) (nonpub. opn.) (J.R. II). We recite here only a brief summary relevant to the issues on appeal. Original Petition, Jurisdiction, and Disposition Mother and father have one child together, J., born in 2013.2 In January 2017, upon annulment of their marriage, the family court awarded mother primary physical custody of J., with visitation for father. On June 28, 2019, the case was referred to the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) based on father’s report of abuse by mother. When the babysitter dropped J. off for father’s visitation, father noticed that J. had several fresh scratch marks and bruises. J. told a DCFS children’s social worker (CSW) that mother hit and scratched him when she was upset. At the time, J. had numerous fresh, deep red scratches on his face, neck, back, and arm, and bruises on his eye and thigh. Father told the CSW that he had…