In re P. N.

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., CON-NOR, BOOCHEVER and FITZGERALD, JJ., and DIMOND, J. Pro Tern. DIMOND, Justice Pro Tern.

It is a sad and tragic thing when a father sexually molests his . ten year old daughter. But that is what happened here. Appellant, the father of the children whose custody is the subject of this appeal,1 made a written statement to the police, and subsequently admitted in testimony in a children’s proceeding before the superior court, that over a period of three years he had on repeated occasions engaged in explicit sexual acts — short only of actual intercourse — with…