In Interest of Hastings

Dawn Hastings and Robert Hastings, parents of a boy born May 7, 1978, appeal from an order of the separate juvenile court terminating their parental rights to their child.

Reports which appear in the record show that the child had been placed in a foster home after a “police pick-up.” The child, who at that time was less than 1 year old, had been taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center because he had been beaten. At that time the “left side of his face was swollen and bruised. His left eye was swollen completely closed and the white of the eye was bloody.” His “left front tooth was…