A.G.

SUMMARY

The father in this juvenile dependency proceeding seeks reversal of the juvenile court’s orders adjudging his two-year-old son Andy G. a dependent child of the juvenile court, refusing to release Andy to his father, and ordering the father to attend sexual abuse counseling for perpetrators. The court found that the father had sexually abused Andy’s 12- and 14-year-old half sisters and that Andy was at substantial risk of sexual abuse as well. The father contends the evidence was insufficient to support the court’s jurisdictional findings as to Andy and that the court should have released his son to the father’s custody. We disagree and affirm the orders.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Andy and his four half siblings were detained in January 2009. At the time, the family was being supervised by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) under a voluntary family maintenance program to ensure adequate and appropriate parenting by the mother. Andy’s father (who is not the father of the other four children) was not part of the program because the mother and children reported he did not live in the home and only had visits…