PEOPLE IN INTEREST OF D.M.

No. 14688.

367 N.W.2d 769 (1985)

The PEOPLE in the State of South Dakota In the Interest of D.M., a Child; and Concerning F.M., Mother.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided May 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janice Godtland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for state of S.D.; Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on the brief.

Jane M. Farrell, Hot Springs, for child D.M.

Gerald M. Baldwin of Baldwin & Kelley, Custer, for appellant mother.


WUEST, Acting Justice.

This is an appeal from a dispositional order terminating the parental rights of F.M., with regard to her daughter D.M. We affirm.

In August of 1983, the South Dakota Department of Social Services (Department) was informed that D.M. and her brother M.M. were involved in an incestuous relationship. An investigation revealed that this relationship began sometime in 1976 or 1977. Subsequently, D.M. remained with F.M., her mother. M.M. moved...

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