In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JV-121430

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether an adjudication of delinquency based upon child molestation must be accompanied by a motivation to act with “an unnatural or abnormal sexual interest with respect to children.”

The male juvenile was thirteen years old at the time of the incident that gave rise to the charge of delinquency. The act of child molestation consisted of the juvenile placing his finger or fingers into the vagina of a three-year-old girl who was a visitor in his home. The medical evidence showed that as a result, the three-year-old’s vagina was…