In re Gizelle D. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

Jermaine D. (father) and Nicole D. (mother) are parents to daughter Gizelle (born January 2005).1 Mother also has two adult children with other men: Kierra and Jonathan. Though father “consider[ed] Jonathan and Kierra” to be “[his] children,” father sexually abused each of them for much of their childhoods.2 Between 2012 and 2019, when Kierra was age

Father and mother are also parents to fraternal twins (born October 2006), but neither the twins nor their mother are parties to this appeal.

Father also sexually abused his sister when they were minors.

2 10 to 17, father forcefully kissed her with his tongue; he touched, caressed, squeezed, and tried to suck her breasts nearly every day, claiming that he was examining her for breast cancer; he regularly forced Kierra to masturbate him; and he orally copulated her, even when she was asleep. Gizelle walked in on father fondling Kierra’s breasts on one occasion. When Jonathan was around the same age that Kierra was when she suffered abuse by father, father repeatedly molested Jonathan by making him watch pornography while masturbating father; by making Jonathan orally…