Juvenile Officer of Johnson County v. B.C.

BERREY, Judge.

B.C., the natural mother, appeals from an order of the trial court taking jurisdiction over her minor daughter, I.M.B., and placing custody of I.M.B. with the Division of Family Services for actual placement at the Show-Me Christian Youth Home.

In the early morning on December 10, 1993, B.C. entered I.M.B.’s bedroom and discovered I.M.B. lying face up on the bed with her night shirt open, “totally exposed and naked.” B.C.’s husband, the natural father of I.M.B., quickly placed his partially erect penis into his jogging pants and stated that things were not as they appeared. B.C.…