In Re Interest of AC

The adoptive parents of A.C., a 10-year-old female child, appeal the termination of their parental rights by the separate juvenile court of Sarpy County.

The juvenile court entered the termination order after finding (1) that the parents of the child “have substantially and continuously or repeatedly neglected said child and refused to give said child necessary care and protection” and (2) that it is in the best interests of the child for the parental rights to be terminated. We affirm.

We have held that in a parental rights termination case,

“[o]ur review is de novo on the record, and we are…