Marshall v. Pitt

The parents, Thomas and Evelyn Marshall, appeal from an order appointing the grandparents, Rlyn and Mary Pitt, guardians of the person and estate of Tanya Marshall, then 14 years old.

On October 22, 1984, John McElheron, a social worker with the Department of Social and Health Services, interviewed Tanya Marshall regarding allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct on the part of her father. Tanya told McElheron that her father, Thomas Marshall, had touched her breasts underneath her clothes. She said that he had been drinking at the time and described his history of alcohol abuse.

Later that…