My Daughter Is Healing Post Assault; It's Time To Look Into The Legal Side

*edit to update To answer a few questions: - No I do not want the kiddo prosecuted. Clearly somewhere along the line, he too was a victim. - I really appreciate all of the advice and support. This has been a nightmare situation. We were able to find a good place for local legal advice and direction.

Thanks again, everyone!

TW: SA, Self harm & Suicide

Location: Washington State

Our Daughter was 6 last year when she was SA'd on a playdate outside of our home. I am not going to go into too many details here but it was an older than her kid who was under the age of 13. Meaning, no one was arrested because he was too young to have committed a crime in Wa State.

Everything was 100% reported and investigated via that Counties Sheriff and DCYF offices and my daughter is in trauma therapy. We had to move across the state for the therapy because there was zero mental health help where we were for a child her age and severity of symptoms but we had little choice as every day was worse than the previous and we will ofc do anything for her.

She went from super bubbly and outgoing to violent and anxious overnight. It got so bad that when she didn't get relief from self harm or harm targeted against myself and our doggo that she attacked me to try to get outside to go "dead myself" (her verbiage) in the road by our apartment. I had to call for emergency help that day and she has since medicated to help the PTSD and trauma symptoms.

She is now doing much better with her therapy but still has a long road to recovery. For example, the nightmares are down to a few times a week vrs every night.

Now that she is starting to recover, it's time to research the legal aspect of this. Again, I don't want to put too many details here but we found out after the fact via the sheriff's office that there were previous instances with this kiddo that we were not only not disclosed to us but the parents had left the 2 kiddos alone in the house when it happened. Had we had any knowledge of this, we never would've allowed her to go play there.

I am currently working on getting the documents via the sheriff's office ans DCYF. Literally any advice or recommendations are welcome.