In re Gizelle D. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

Father and mother have three children together: Gizelle (born January 2005), and twins Danielle and Denzel (born October 2006). Mother has two older children with other men:

2 Kierra (November 2002) and an adult son Jonathan. While “consider[ing] Jonathan and Kierra” to be “[his] children,” father subjected each of them to sexual abuse for years 1 on end. From when Kierra was age 10 to 17 (that is, between approximately 2012 and 2019), father forcefully kissed Kierra with his tongue; he touched, caressed, squeezed, and tried to suck her breasts nearly every day under the pretense that he was “touching them for breast cancer”; he regularly forced Kierra to grab his penis and masturbate him; he orally copulated her (sometimes starting while she was asleep); and he “dry humped” her (that is, he simulated vaginal sex while clothed). During much of this time period (that is, between approximately 2008 and 2014), father also repeatedly molested Jonathan by making Jonathan watch pornography while simultaneously masturbating father; by making Jonathan orally copulate him; and, on one occasion, by attempting to anally penetrate Jonathan. Over…