In re K.A.
Shirley and Renee,[1]two guardians of six children, appeal from a contested dispositional hearing at which the juvenile court removed custody of the children from their care, denied reunification services to the guardians, and terminated the guardianship. The six children had been in the care of the guardians for approximately 10 years, during which time the children had been subjected to extensive abuse and cruelty. The guardians argue that (1) the juvenile court abused its discretion to deny a continuance of the disposition hearing to permit counsel to listen to a recording of a later interview with the youngest female child who had originally denied being aware of any abuse in the home but later made disclosures, and (2) the jurisdictional and dispositional orders are reversible because the minors needed, but did not have, separate counsel. Court disagree and affirm.
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