Lawrence County Juvenile Office v. J.B.
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.. Appellant J.B. challenges a termination of her parental rights to her daughter S.J.B. (“Child”), raising two points, the nature and disposition of which obviate our need to detail a sad and sordid factual backdrop that the concurring opinion describes in some detail.
Here, it is enough to note that J.B. is a low-functioning person (IQ 69) whose stepfather, a registered sex offender, sexually abused her as a child, then impregnated her as an adult. Child was prematurely born of that union; spent a month in NICU; then was transferred to Children’s Division custody and care due in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- SHAWN R. MITCHELL v. LOREN KEITH WILSON and LOREN L. WILSON, Defendants-Respondents.Missouri Court of Appeals · 2016