In re Jordan R

In In re Jordan R. (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th 111, the court affirmed the juvenile court's finding of jurisdiction over a seven-year-old daughter but not a two-year-old son where there was evidence of the father's sexual abuse of his 13-year-old niece. The sexual abuse in Jordan R. was substantial, including the niece orally copulating the father and the father licking and touching the niece's genitals and breasts. However, the court based its jurisdictional finding as to the daughter in part on the fact that the father wrestled with the daughter in a manner similar to how he wrestled with his niece at the age of eight, which a social worker stated "was a grooming behavior for later abuse." (In re Jordan R., supra, 205 Cal.App.4th at pp. 119-120.) By contrast, the son was only two years old, the father had only wrestled with him a few times, and he had no inappropriate contact with him. (Id. at p. 138.)