Crabtree v. Crabtree

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

This case involves a question of visitation privileges with a minor child amid allegations of sexual abuse by one of the parents and a question of criminal contempt for the refusal to comply with prior visitation orders of the court.

On August 25, 1983, the court below entered an order granting the plaintiff-appellant, Helen R. Crabtree, a divorce and custody of her minor child. The child was at that time nearly six years old. From that point until the proceedings that resulted in this appeal, the parties have engaged in a classic struggle over the question of custody…