In re April A. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

A. The family Kenia N. (mother) and Alexander A. (father) have a daughter, April A. (born April 2017). Mother and father are not together; pursuant to a family court order granting the parents joint legal and physical custody, April split her time equally between mother’s and father’s homes. B. The sexual abuse Father inappropriately touched and exposed himself to April while she was in his care. Once, after April finished using the restroom, father touched her vagina over her underpants, and said, “cool man.” He then left the room, but returned to touch her vagina again, this time over her pants. Another time, after father finished using the restroom, he approached April with his underpants around his knees and, while facing her with his penis exposed, inserted one of April’s troll doll toys “inside his butt.”

2 When April did not look up from the tablet she was using, father took the tablet away, turned around for her to see the troll doll in his buttocks, and encouraged her to place a toy in hers. When April said she was going to report these incidents to mother, father told her not to. In July 2023, mother observed April…