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In the Interest of K. A. P.

The 25-year-old mother has used drugs since she was 13, she was under the influence of drugs at the termination hearing and she physically threatened her child and his siblings while under the influence.

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The natural mother of K. A. P. appeals from the juvenile court’s order terminating her parental rights. She argues that insufficient evidence supports the termination order, that the juvenile court erred in denying her request for a continuance, and that the juvenile court improperly considered the results of a drug test conducted after the termination hearing. For reasons that follow, we affirm. 1. In reviewing an order terminating parental rights, “we view the evidence in a light most favorable to the juvenile court’s ruling and determine whether a rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the parent’s rights should have been terminated.”1 So construed, the evidence shows that K. A. P.’s mother and father were never married. K. A. P.’s father lived with K. A. P. and his mother until K. A. P. was one year old, after which the couple separated. The father eventually married his current wife, Tina.

In August 2004, the Department of Family and Children Services removed K. A. P. from the mother’s home because the mother was involved with drugs. On September 28, 2004, the juvenile court found six-year-old K. A. P. to be deprived and placed him in his father’s custody. In the deprivation order, the juvenile court made numerous findings of fact, including that the mother threatened to kill K. A. P. and his siblings, held a knife to his three-year-old sibling, and had been diagnosed with Amphetamine Mood Disorder and Amphetamine Dependence. The mother did not appeal the deprivation order or these findings.

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