In re Ruby R. CA2/8

background. A The father has one daughter with the mother. The daughter, Ruby, is 14. When the father and mother began their relationship, the mother already had a daughter from a previous relationship, Sarai. Sarai is 18. The father acted as a father- figure to Sarai, who did not discover he was not her biological father for many years. The father and mother separated when Ruby was around eight or nine. Sarai had a strained relationship with her mother. In June 2019, she began living with relatives. In November 2019, while living with her aunt, she witnessed a domestic violence incident between the aunt and the aunt’s boyfriend. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services learned of this event and a social worker interviewed Sarai. Sarai said she had a strained relationship with her mother who made negative and belittling comments to her. Sarai had attempted suicide by hanging when she was in fifth grade and by overdosing on pills when she was 15. Sarai also said she had been sexually assaulted by the father when they all lived together, but she did not recall details because it happened when she was young.

2 Sarai claimed she told her therapist about the…