T.W.
Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. T.W.
Opinion
lead Opinion
Chaney, J.
T.W. (Mother) and W.B. (Father) appeal from 2009 jurisdiction findings and disposition orders made by the juvenile court that resulted in E.B. (Son, age 11) and J.B. (Daughter, age 8) being detained with Mother, in Father being ordered to complete a family reunification program, and in Mother being ordered to complete a family maintenance program. The court ordered monitored visits between Father and Son and no contact between Father and Daughter. Because Mother and Father fail to show any error, insufficiency of the evidence, or abuse of discretion, we affirm the juvenile court’s orders.
BACKGROUND
Mother and Father divorced in March 2007, though they lived together periodically until September 2008, when Mother moved with the children to a domestic violence shelter to escape Father’s verbal abuse. Father is a registered sex offender, having been convicted in 1989 of violation of Penal Code section 288, subdivision (a) (lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14), a felony.
On September 15, 2008, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) received reports from police and nursing staff at the University of Southern California Medical…