Ellington v. S.R. ex rel. Aylward

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

In these adoption proceedings the natural mother, who was born June 27, 1958, is blind, deaf and practically mute. On July 5, 1963, she was struck by a gravel truck which, according to the Social Report of the Missouri Division of Family Services, caused these injuries: severe cerebral concussion and contusion, bilateral blindness, skull fracture, clavicle fracture, multiple abrasions and contusions and post-traumatic convulsive seizures. In November of that year she was re-admitted to the University of Missouri Medical Center with a diagnosis of meningitis, which…