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It was just more than three months ago that I stood in the Ruiz family's den with Gloria and Tito Ruiz, who run a daycare from their Wiseburn home. There, among the comfy sofas and Betty Boop collectibles, Gloria and Tito Ruiz said they were perplexed by allegations that Tito Ruiz sexually molested little girls in their care.

However, what I didn't know then - but know now - was that Tito Ruiz, 65, had already admitted to a sheriff's Special Victims Unit detective that he touched a 6-year-old girl five or six times on her breast and used his bare hand and toilet paper to wipe two other little girls after they used the toilet. The detective, who testified at his preliminary hearing today, said Tito Ruiz knew it was wrong, but he was "curious."

Tito Ruiz was ordered to stand trial for six counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child. Look for full coverage of the hearing later on dailybreeze.com and in Tuesday's newspaper.