I am taking care of my friends 5 year old daughter for a while. Her and her ex husband are divorced and she recently discovered that anytime her daughter has been at his house the past two years and a half years, she's been sexually abused by him and his friends.It hit the mother very hard that this happened to the little girl and she is going to get help for depression, before living with her daughter again because she doesn't want the environment to be unstable.

She's a very independent little girl and doesn't like being touched, nurtured, held or anything. Her therapist told me ideas for how to get her to attach to me, but they aren't working. She is not a mother, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice from a motherly prospective of what to do here. She won't let me make her anything to eat, read to her, put her to sleep or anything.