The documents show that SCC first had contact with Sharif and Sara’s mother, Olga Domin, in 2010 – more than two years before Sara was born – having received “referrals indicative of neglect” relating to her two older siblings, known only as Z and U.
This began several years of council involvement with the family which included allegations of domestic abuse by both parents towards each other and the children.
The authority began the first set of care proceedings in relation to Z and U in January 2013, which then involved Sara within a week of her birth.
Between 2013 and 2015, several more abuse allegations were made.
In November 2014, after Z was found with an arm injury consistent with an adult bite mark, Sara and her two siblings were taken into police protection, with Ms Domin arrested and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and later accepting a caution.
The council applied for the children to be taken into emergency care, telling a family court it had “significant concerns” about the children returning to Sharif.
A judge was told at a hearing that Sara was “observed to stand facing a wall” by carers and was “very small and doesn’t eat a lot”.
The judge described Sara’s behaviour as “disturbing”, but she was placed back in the care of her parents under supervision.
