State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Miglioretto

Father appeals from a judgment terminating his parental rights in his daughter Tonya. We affirm.

Father’s only argument is that his parental rights cannot be terminated because no evidence was presented that Tonya was sexually abused by him. The state offered as evidence a transcript of an earlier proceeding in which father’s parental rights in Tonya’s older sister were terminated. At that trial the sister testified to an act of sexual abuse by father, and father’s 17-year old stepdaughter testified about his sexual abuse of her from the time she was in grade school until she was placed in…