State ex rel. ML

|1SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

The State of Louisiana, Department of Social Services, Office of Community Services has appealed from a judgment of the juvenile court dismissing appellant’s petition to terminate the parental rights of the mother of ML, born on May 13, 1990, and PL, born on April 30, 1993. The issue is whether appellant carried its burden of proof where the grounds for termination were desertion and abandonment of the children.

ML first came into state custody on June 4, 1991 after she suffered incidents of physical abuse and neglect due to the mother’s mental illness. ML was adjudicated…