Solano County Welfare Department v. Mitchell J.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hanlon, J.
Mitchell J. appeals from the jurisdictional and dispositional orders finding his daughter Michelle M. a dependent child of the juvenile court. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 300.)
On December 21, 1990, the Solano County Welfare Department (the Department) filed a petition alleging that Timothy M. 2 (born in September 1984) and his half sister Michelle M. (born in August 1987) had been *328 sexually abused by Michelle’s father (appellant) and that these two children and their half brother Michael F. (born in October 1989) were at risk of future abuse. (§ 300, subds. (a), (d), (j).) A contested jurisdictional hearing took place over four days in June 1990.
At the end of the hearing, the court dismissed the petition as to Michael F. and found the remaining allegations of the petition true. At the dispositional hearing, the court found the minors to be dependent children of the juvenile court and placed them in the custody of their mother under the supervision of the Department. The court ordered no contact between appellant and the minors except in a therapeutic setting if deemed appropriate by the minors’ therapist in consultation with the social worker.