SC v. State

795 So.2d 526 (2001)

In the Interest of S.C. and C. C.: B.R.C.

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 2000-CA-00837-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 27, 2001.

John Carlton Dawson Jr., Biloxi, Attorney for Appellant.

Herbert Wayne Wilson, Gulfport, Attorneys for Appellee.

Before McRAE, P.J., MILLS and WALLER, JJ.

WALLER, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. This case involves the abuse and neglect of three-year-old S.C. ("daughter") and her ten-year-old brother, C.C. ("son").[1] The daughter's grandmother, believing the daughter had been abused by her father, went to the Department of Human Services (DHS),…