A Surrey man who snuck into a young girl's home in the dead of night and molested her in her bedroom has been denied parole.

Kyle Wayne Berkson, now 50, was sentenced in 2013 in Surrey provincial court by Judge Jim Bahen, who found him guilty of breaking and entering to commit sexual assault with a weapon, invitation to sexual touching, sexual interference and making threats.

Berkson's nine-year-old victim was sexually assaulted in her bedroom while her grandparents slept in the next room.

Her identity is shielded by a court-ordered publication ban.

The court heard Berkson was a long-time friend of the girl's family, knew his way around her home and was adept at picking locks as his dad had been a locksmith. The court also heard he used a pair of scissors to cut her underpants.

Judge Bahen designated Berkson as a dangerous offender in 2013 and sentenced him to a period of "indeterminate detention."

Berkson lost an appeal of that designation in 2015 before the B.C. Court of Appeal in Vancouver.