D.G.N. v. S.M‪.‬

Appellant, the natural mother of D.G.N., Jr., appeals from the order of the juvenile court terminating her parental rights to D.G.N., Jr. The termination petition was brought pursuant to § 211.447.2(2)(e), RSMo. as amended 1982, which allows termination of parental rights to a child for serious injury and abuse to a sibling. Hearing on the petition was held in Boone County Circuit Court in April of 1983. The court terminated appellants parental rights. The Court of Appeals, Western District, held that it was in the best interest of the child that parental rights be terminated, but the Court did not believe that the prior abuse of older siblings was sufficient under the statute to justify termination of the parental rights to a child not in esse at the time of the abuse to the siblings. We transferred the case and consider the matter as on original appeal. Mo. Const. art. v. § 10. We affirm.