In the Interest of B.E.Y.

Greene, J.:

Natural father appeals the district court’s termination of his parental rights. Concluding that a rational factfinder *843could have found it highly probable, i.e., by clear and convincing evidence, that father’s rights should be terminated and that such termination was in the best interests of the children, we affirm. .

In February 2007, the children were placed in State custody based on reports that father physically and sexually abused the children and mother failed to protect them. On August 7, 2007, the district court found that father sexually abused B.A.Y., physically abused…