This week at work I was assigned a case and the allegations were that a 6 year old had bruises on her arm and that her bottom is always red. Well I went out to see the child and the bruises were gone. The little girl has down syndrome and speech is very limited. The child resides in the home with relatives that have guardianship over her. Child was taken from mom years ago and biological mom keeps the child every other week end. When I went to visit biological mom she had a lot to say. I was made aware of concerns that the mom had. Mom showed me a video of the child humping two baby dolls. I was very disturbed by the video. I felt that the child has seen someone having sexual intercourse at home or tv. My third guess would be that someone was grinding and humping on the child. The video was very detailed and the little girl was humping as if she knew what she doing and to get gratification. Now my question to myself and supervisor was that I know that down syndrome kids explore and tend to have higher sexual desire than other kid but this child is 6 years old. My decision is to see if the child has been exposed sexually and examined by a medical doctor. I do not think that I could close my case without a medical examiner.
The conflict comes in because the biological mom feels that her child has been touched inappropriately and that she may have been exposed in sexual activities. The caretakers of the child feels as if the biological mom is causing problems because she wants her child back and will not stop making accusations against them.
My intake on things is that if the medical examine comes back and say that the child has been touched and her hymen is gone, I would move the child and not allow the child to be in either home.
