Annette V. v. Superior Court
Filed 5/1/06 Annette V. v. Superior Court CA2/2
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
| ANNETTE V., Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Real Party in Interest. | B188357 (Super. Ct. No. CK14443) |
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING; petition for writ of mandate. Valerie Lynn Skeba, Commissioner. Petition denied.
Emma Castro for Petitioner Annette V.
Children's Law Center of Los Angeles, Unit Three, Devora Navera and Mary Knowlson for the Minor.
Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel, Larry Cory, Assistant County Counsel, and Kim Nemoy, Deputy County Counsel, for Real Party in Interest.
Annette V. (mother), the mother of 13-year old Amber, challenges the juvenile court order terminating reunification services and setting a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26[1] permanency planning hearing. Mother maintains that the court's finding that return of Amber to her care would place Amber at risk of emotional harm was unsupported by substantial evidence. We deny the petition.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
This is Amber's second dependency case.
In 2001, Amber and her sister Kiana were declared dependents on findings that included mother's physical abuse of Amber and her limited ability to handle Amber's behavioral problems, which included fire setting.[2]
In June 2002, the juvenile court placed Amber in her father's custody; it terminated jurisdiction and awarded the father custody six months later, in January 2003.
In April 2004, Amber was ordered detained from her father and placed in foster care, following reports that the father had physically abused her on multiple occasions, left her without supervision for long periods of time, and failed to attend to her basic needs, such as providing her food. The day the abuse was reported, Amber's father had dropped Amber at her great grandmother's house, saying: â€
