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In the Interest of H. H.

The parents' squalid living conditions posed a serious health risk to their children and supported the termination of their parental rights.

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Following a bench trial on a petition to terminate parental rights, the juvenile court terminated the parental rights of the parents of two young girls and a young boy. The parents appeal, arguing that the evidence did not suffice to sustain the judgment. The evidence showed that after the children were placed in foster care due to unsanitary living conditions and abandonment, the parents continued to live in squalor and did not comply with the court reunification plan. The State petitioned to terminate their parental rights, which petition the court granted based on the deplorable conditions continuing in the home. Since the evidence supports the trial court’s order, we affirm.

At the time W. D. A. H. was born, his parents and two sisters were living with his paternal grandparents, who did not approve of a third grandchild. The mother concealed the pregnancy and gave birth to the boy in the back seat of a car, placing him in a plastic bag and abandoning him. The boy was discovered an hour later and hospitalized, where his body temperature was 94.2 barely higher than that at which life is sustained, his kidneys were not functioning, and he was in a state of shock. The parents conceded that the boy was deprived, and the court immediately placed him into foster care.

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