A former North Country and state conservation police officer will spend 10 years on probation after he admitted having sexual relations with an 8-year-old girl.

Sixty-two-year-old Peter Kunath of Queensbury admitted he had sexual contact with the girl at two locations in Schenectady County, in the summer of 2007.

Kunath was a police officer with Lake Placid and Saranac Lake village police departments from the 1970s through the 1980s. He later became a State Department of Environmental Conservation police officer and retired as an investigator with the agency.

He pleaded guilty to felony first-degree sexual abuse of a child under the age of 11.
  
   (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)