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Background and Referral These dependency proceedings were initiated on July 19, 2022, when the agency received a referral from LeFlore County, Oklahoma indicating that it had been in the process of conducting a sexual abuse investigation regarding four minor children, including the children at issue here, D.S. and M.R. (the boys), as well as their twin half sisters, R.H. and D.H. (the girls).3 The day following a forensic interview of the children, mother fled Oklahoma and returned to California, where she was tracked to Stanislaus County through records of her food stamp card purchases. According to the social worker in Oklahoma, a family member, who was babysitting the children while mother and her live-in boyfriend (and presumed father of M.R.), R.R., were shopping, reported the children’s disclosure of sexual abuse by R.R. It

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. 2 M.R.’s first and last names are the same as his father’s names, but he goes by his middle name. 3 The girls are not subjects of this petition.

2. was reported that R.R. was making the children perform sexual acts on him. D.S. reported that he heard his sister,…