Rachel Booth, the 13-year-old Elizabeth Township girl charged with killing her father last month, was ordered yesterday to be housed at Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, pending a delinquency hearing next month.

Rachel, who has told investigators that she killed her father after years of physical and sexual abuse, had been involuntarily committed to Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic for treatment of a severe mood disorder.

The girl underwent more than two weeks of treatment and evaluation while at the clinic.

Before that, she had spent four nights in the Allegheny County Jail while her defense attorney, Patrick Nightingale, worked to have her case transferred to juvenile court.

The girl initially had been charged as an adult for the July 30 shotgun slaying of her father, Matthew Booth Sr., 34.

At a detention hearing yesterday, Common Pleas Judge Kathryn Hens-Greco denied a defense motion to have Rachel released to the custody of her mother, Michelle Fazek of White Oak, to await the delinquency hearing.

The judge declined the motion because forensic and physical evidence had not been presented at the hearing to bolster defense claims that Rachel had been the victim of rape by her father since she was 7. Investigators said the girl reported that her father raped her the night before she shot him as he slept.

Deputy District Attorney Eric Woltshock told the judge that his office will move quickly to provide information to the defense to help expedite her adjudication.

After arguing against releasing Rachel, Mr. Woltshock said his office might reconsider its position in the near future.

Ms. Fazek has been visiting her daughter daily, Mr. Nightingale said. There has been some reconciliation in the mother-daughter relationship, once described as alienated and estranged.

A court order after Mr. Booth and Ms. Fazek broke up left Rachel and her brother, Matthew Jr., 14, in their father's custody. Their younger sister, Elizabeth, 12, has been with her mother.

A family court judge earlier this month granted temporary custody of Matthew to his paternal grandparents.

Judge Hens-Greco will preside over a dependency hearing Aug. 29 for the children's long-term care.

The judge also will preside at a preliminary delinquency hearing to be held simultaneously with a final dependency hearing Sept. 7.

If Rachel is found delinquent in the shooting, Judge Hens-Greco could order her to be held in a long-term juvenile facility until she turns 21.

If not, the court still could order her to remain under its supervision until she is 18, her lawyer has said.