Juvenile Officer v. C.S.

KAREN KING MITCHELL, Presiding Judge.

C.S., Sr. (“Father”) appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri (“trial court”), terminating his parental rights to his two children C.K.S. and C.B.S., Jr. (“the twins”). On appeal, Father alleges that the trial court erred in finding statutory grounds upon which to terminate his parental rights as to the twins because the court’s findings that Father neglected the children as defined in RSMo 20001 section 211.447.5(2) and that Father was unfit to parent the twins under section 211.447.5(6) were both impermissibly based solely…