In re D.F. CA2/3
In this dependency case, mother Judith D. challenges the court’s jurisdictional findings under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivisions (b) and (d), regarding mother’s failure to protect her daughter D.F. (minor) from serious physical harm and sexual abuse by mother’s male companion. The Department of Children and Family Services (Department) moved to dismiss the appeal as moot because, during the pendency of the appeal, the court terminated jurisdiction over the minor. Due to the seriousness of the sexual abuse allegation and potentially far-reaching consequences that finding may have on mother and other members of her family, we reach the merits of her appeal. Because substantial evidence supports the court’s jurisdictional finding under section 300, subdivision (d), we affirm.
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