In re S.E.P.

STEPHENS, Judge.

Before June 2002, N.P. had given birth to two children, both of whom had been removed from her custody and permanently placed with relatives due to N.P.'s domestic violence, anger control issues, and her inability to keep from being incarcerated. In June 2002, N.P. gave birth to S.E.P. N.P. was married to S.P., and S.P. was S.E.P.'s father. On 24 September 2002, N.P. was incarcerated in the Iredell County jail for violating the terms of her intensive probation.1 N.P. left S.E.P. in the care of Ms. Faye Miller, S.E.P.'s godmother. On 25 September 2002, N.P. informed an Iredell…