In the Interest of K.W.

OPINION

GLENN A. NORTON, Judge.

Mother appeals the judgment terminating her parental rights with respect to K.W., C.L. and M.W. We reverse and remand.

I. BACKGROUND

The Missouri Department of Social Services, Children’s Division, took custody of Mother’s three children — a five-year-old boy, a three-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy — in the summer of 2001. In August of that year, the trial court entered judgment assuming jurisdiction over the children based on inadequate supervision, unsanitary living conditions and the failed efforts of the Division, through various services, to prevent…