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. Originally she was supposed to be returned to her soon, but it does not look like that will be happening, I will be getting custody for about 2 years.

I don't know what's wrong with her today. She doesn't have school and ever since she woke up she's been completely contrary. She has hit me 5 times and kicked me whenever I've asked her to do something. I'm not being mean to her either. I said "can you please pick up your toys" "would you like something to eat?" "You seem a little tired do you think you should take a rest?" I've tried asking her what's wrong and she's kicked me, I don't know what to do.

I've put her in timeout and she screams and kicks and hides.