In re D.X. CA5
Minor, D.X., appeals from the juvenile court’s dispositional order granting her father, N.X. (father), reunification services after sustaining allegations under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (d) that he sexually abused her. D.X. contends the court should have denied father reunification services under section 361.5, subdivision (b)(6), which applies where the child has been severely sexually abused as defined in the statute and it would not benefit the child to reunify with the parent. D.X. contends that although the manner in which father sexually abused her is not specifically identified in the statute, the statute does not limit the specific acts of sexual abuse that the court can deem “severe.” The court’s failure to apply the statute in her case, she argues, is reversible error. We concur and reverse.
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