Interest of S.G.M.

PIERCE, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On December 2, 2011, the Bolivar County prosecuting attorney filed a petition in the Bolivar County Youth Court, seeking an adjudicatory hearing, after receiving a complaint that two minor girls, S.G.M. and C.D.M., ages thirteen and eleven, respectively, had been sexually abused by their father. The youth court conducted an adjudicatory hearing on December 7, 2011. Those present at the hearing, apart from the attorneys, were Jim Warrington, the guardian ad litem (GAL) assigned to the case; Johnnie Rushing, a social worker with the Department of Human…