The female child's out-of-court statements to the police detective that respondent had sexually abused her were corroborated by respondent's signed, sworn statement that he had committed the acts of abuse the child had described to the detective. The credibility of this admission, and its corroborative effect, is not undermined by respondent's recantation (see, Matter of Margaret W.,
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