In Interest of W. S.

An amended petition was filed March 27, 1979, in the Juvenile Court of Jasper County wherein it was alleged that two minor boys were in need of care and treatment because their “environment or associations are injurious to their health and welfare.” § 211.031, subd. l(lXc).1 The stated reason for the averment was that the children had received excessive corporal punishment on two occasions from a boyfriend of the minors’ mother. The mother had been awarded their custody at the time she was divorced from the boys’ father. Following hearings held April 25 and July 26, 1979, the court on the…