MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - An 11-year-old girl lived a horrific nightmare while living in a house near Redondo Elementary School in Homestead, records show.

It took more than two years, after her father's murder and her mother's deportation, for Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office detectives to uncover it, records show.

On June 10, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge William Altfield issued a warrant for the search of the house and the arrest of Christian Heras, the girl's second cousin, who also lived at the house. Here is the timeline of the girl's suffering and the MDSO homicide and special victims bureau detectives' investigation as described by the arrest warrant: MDSO detectives believe Heras, then 28 and 29, sexually abused the girl for months before killing her father and threatening to kill her mother in 2024.Detectives learned that before the murder, the girl's father was concerned about Heras  always trying to be alone  with her, so he asked the girl's mother to  not let  him be with her  without supervision. Detectives learned that after the girl's father confronted Heras and asked him to avoid getting  too close  to his 11-year-old daughter, Heras showed him  a handgun to scare him.  On Dec. 16, 2024, Homestead Police Department officers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to a report of a fatal fall in a house's backyard near Northwest 10th Avenue and 12th Street. MDFR personnel declared the girl's father dead, HPD asked MDSO to take over the case, and a homicide investigator reported the girl's father had suffered a  compound skull fracture, which exposed his brain. The homicide investigator, who was wearing a body camera and taking pictures, found what appeared to be blood on a ladder and on a cement garden brick that  had several strands of hair on a corner.  The girl's mother told detectives that when Heras showed her the body covered with palm fronds, facing upward on the ground, with a ladder on top, he started  screaming profanities  at her dead husband, and later said dogs were  licking the blood on the cement brick.  Heras and the owner of the house, Heras's mother,

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