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In the Interest of R. D. B.

The mother and son tested positive for methamphetamine, following the son's birth, and the mother was incarcerated eight months later on a 10-year sentence for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.

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The juvenile court terminated the natural mother’s parental rights to her two-year-old son, R. D. B. The mother appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting termination, as well as the child’s post-termination placement.1 For reasons that follow, we affirm. 1. When reviewing an order terminating parental rights, we construe the evidence in the light most favorable to the juvenile court’s ruling. In the Interest of P. A. T. L. , 264 Ga. App. 901 592 SE2d 536 2003. We do not weigh the evidence or resolve issues of witness credibility, but merely determine “whether any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the natural parent’s rights to custody have been lost.” Citation omitted. Id.

So viewed, the evidence showed that R. D. B. was born on November 13, 2004. Following the birth, both the mother and baby tested positive for methamphetamine, and R. D. B. was removed from the mother’s custody on November 16, 2004. Although the child stayed briefly with his father, the Department of Family and Children Services “DFACS” removed him in December 2004, and the juvenile court adjudicated him deprived based on the mother’s substance abuse. R. D. B. was placed with foster parents, with whom he was still living when the juvenile court held a termination hearing approximately two years later.

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