Juvenile Officer v. Ward

NUGENT, Presiding Judge.

The mother, Ms. Deanna Ward, appeals the circuit court’s judgment terminating her parental rights in her three children. She complains first, that the court erred in considering the children’s social files and admitting into evidence some of the records of the Wayne Miner Medical Center and the Blosser Home for Children. She then argues that without the inadmissible material the juvenile officer failed to adduce clear, cogent and convincing evidence to support the court’s termination of her parental rights. We reverse.

To terminate a mother’s rights in her children, the…