Smith v. Wright

¶ 1. Defendant appeals from a final relief-from-abuse order in which the family division of the superior court concluded that plaintiff was a vulnerable adult and that defendant abused and exploited her. We affirm.

¶ 2. Plaintiff was born in November 1992. She was deaf for the first several years of her life, resulting in developmental delays that caused her to be held back in school. She met defendant, who was born in March 1972, while he was doing some carpentry work for her stepfather sometime between 2007 and 2009. Beginning in the summer of 2009, plaintiff accepted defendant’s invitation…