State ex rel. Department of Human Services v. Squiers

Mother appeals from a judgment terminating her parental rights to two of her children, N and G,1 on the grounds that she is unfit and that she neglected the children. ORS 419B.504; ORS 419B.506. On de novo review, ORS 419A.200(6)(b), we reverse.

We take the facts from the trial court file and the evidence presented at the termination hearing. N and G, who were eight and six years old, respectively, at the time of the termination hearing, have twice been removed from mother’s home and placed in foster care. The first removal was in 1999, and the events leading up to it were as follows. Mother…