Department of Human Services v. F. L. B.

Mother and father appeal judgments terminating their parental rights to two children, M and J. The juvenile court first took jurisdiction over those children after father was accused of sexually abusing his 13-year-old stepdaughter B, who is mother’s daughter and the half sister of M and J. Mother and father were incarcerated shortly after B disclosed the abuse in April 2010—father on charges related to the sexual-abuse allegations and mother on charges of criminal mistreatment and of violating an official’s duty to report child abuse, both related to her failure to immediately report…