Jude M. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services

OPINION

MAASSEN, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A father appeals a superior court order granting long-term guardianship of his daughter to maternal relatives in another state. The father has a history of inappropriate sexual relationships and during four years of the child’s life was incarcerated following a federal conviction for transportation of child pornography. The superior court ordered the guardianship based in part on expert testimony that the father could not yet be left alone with his daughter, given the *548state 'of Ms progress with sex offender treatment, and in part because Ms probation…