In re H. W.

MARTIN, Chief Judge.

Respondent-mother and respondent-father are the parents of H.W., born 12 November 1995, and R.W., born 23 February 1998. On 22 June 2001, the Davidson County Department of Social Services (“DSS”) filed a petition alleging the minor children were neglected and dependent. Nonsecure custody of the children was given to DSS, and on 31 August 2001, following hearings conducted on 24 July, 7 August, and 13 August 2001, the trial court found, inter alia, that on 18 April 1991, respondent-father had been convicted of feloniously abusing the twenty-month-old son of his girlfriend…