In Re Interest of SAS

This is an appeal from an order of the the separate juvenile court of Douglas County terminating the parental relationship of S.A.S., a female child born December 7, 1980, to V.S., the natural mother.

In June 1982 the police were notified of a case of possible child neglect through a call to the department’s child abuse hotline. The police called the case to the attention of juvenile authorities from Child Protective Services, who upon investigation discovered that the child, S.A.S., then approximately 18 months old, was living with the mother and her husband in the cab of a truck. The husband…