State v. Christensen

RAPP, Vice Chief Judge.

Defendants, Rick and Patti Christensen, appeal a judgment on a jury verdict adjudicating their children, C.C., S.C., and R.C., to be deprived and terminating their parental rights. Patti Christensen is the natural mother of all three children. Rick Christensen is the natural father of only R.C., an infant.

The incident stems from a charge made by C.C., alleging that she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Rick Christensen. On one occasion in which C.C. had been “touched the night before,” she decided to run away from home. The next morning, C.C. stole her mother’s…