In the Interest of C. M. S.

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, herself a minor child, appeals the termination of her parental rights with respect to her two children, contending that the evidence was insufficient to support the termination and that the lower court failed to take into account the existence of certain alternatives to the complete severance of her parental rights.

When the hearing was held in April of 1987, the appellant was 13 years of age and a student in a seventh grade special-education class. She had become pregnant with her first child at the age of 10, after being raped by her brother-in-law. She…