Kilgore v. Department of Human Resources

Banke, Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the Juvenile Court of Decatur County terminating appellant’s parental rights to her three minor children. The Department of Human Resources first became involved in the affairs of appellant and her children in June of 1975, when appellant was serving a sentence for writing bad checks. Her two children, age 3 years and age 11 months, had been left in the care of their invalid grandmother in conditions described as filthy and unhealthy. A department caseworker found the 3-year old dressed only in a disposable diaper and not toilet trained. Her eyes…