K-K (Children : Fact Finding : retracted allegations), Re

SCHEDULE A PARTICULARS OF THRESHOLD FACTS 5. The Second Respondent, Stepfather, sexually abused the child A causing significant harm in the following terms: a. The Second Respondent, on various dates whilst the child was between 6 and 10 years of age, as reported by the child A to professionals on 18 January 2022 and 17 November 2022: i. showed the child A pornography on his mobile phone [49, 50, 173, 235, 253, 333] that was described to the child A by him as ‘ where babies come from’ [51, 65, 222, 413, 533, 549, 727, 735, 841, 1018]; ii. inserted his finger and/or fingers into the child A’s vagina [52, 65, 222, 256, 269, 533]; iii. would join the child A in bed and ‘suck her neck’ [50, 173, 253]; iv. on one occasion, entered the child A’s room and asked her to ‘lick his dick’ an instruction the child followed [50, 172, 235, 253]; v. on one occasion, entered the child A’s room and touched her bottom whilst she was in bed [254, 278, 655] and/or, vi. on one occasion, in around 2017, kissed the child A and/or showed her video of people kissing [278,656]. 6. The First Respondent Mother failed to protect the child A from sexual abuse and/or failed to respond timeously, adequately or at all to allegations made by the child A to her that indicated the child A was the victim of the Second Respondent’s sexual abuse: a. In or around 2019, the child A told her mother that the Second Respondent had sexually abused her on occasion (on a date unknown but presumed to be c.2019 [50, 173, 254, 413] yet she failed to alert social services or the police of these allegations. b. On one occasion, in around 2017, the First Respondent Mother was informed by the child A that the Second Respondent had kissed the child A and/or showed her video of people kissing [278]. The First Respondent Mother did nothing save for asking the Second Respondent whether this had occurred. 7. On or around 14 November 2022, the First Respondent Mother shaved the child A’s head as ‘punishment for lying and for not apologising for the reports of sexual abuse against her step-father’ and that the child A was ruining the First Respondent’s Mother’s life and that she regretted the child A had been born [51, 412, 547]. EDWARD LAMB Amended by TARA VINDIS 5 JUNE 2023/22 August 2023/19 January 2024