IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
No. 14

- 1546 Filed February 11, 2015 IN THE INTEREST OF W.C. and E.C., Minor Children, L.C., Mother, Appellant.

________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Hamilton County, Paul B. Ahlers , District Associate Judge.

The mother appeals the termination of her parental rights to two children.
AFFIRMED.

Justin Deppe of Deppe Law Office, Jewell, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Kathrine S. Miller

- Todd, Assistant County Attorney, and Patrick Chambers , County Attorney, for appellee. Justin Kroona of Kroona Law Office, Webster City, for father. Douglas Cook, Jewell, attorney and guardian ad litem for minor children.

Considered by Vogel, P.J., and Doyle and McDonald, JJ.2

MCDONALD, J. Laura appeals the juvenile court’s order terminating her parental rights to her children, W.C. a nd E.C., pursuant to Iowa Code 232.116(1)(f) (2013). On appeal, Laura contends there is not clear and convincing evidence “ the child [ren] cannot be returned to the custody of the child's parents as provided in section
232.102. ” Iowa Code § 232.116(1)(f)(4). She also contends the termination of her parental rights is not in the children’s best interests. We disagree , and we affirm the order terminating Laura’s parental rights. Our review in this case is de novo. See In re A.M. , 843 N.W.2 d 100, 110 (Iowa 2014). The juvenile court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law are thorough, supported by record evidence, and without error, and we adopt them as our own without repeating them in full herein. In sum, the mother has five children a ll of whom she has subjected to or is subjecting to harm. Laura previously consented to the termination of her parental rights to her two oldest children. The two middle children

— the children at issue in this case

— have been subjected to harm, including e motional, physical, and sexual abuse. They both suffer from a variety of mental conditions: o ne child has been plac ed in a children’s psychiatric hospital; t he other child has been hospitalized in a psychiatric unit. At the time of the termination hearin g, the mother was not able to assume care of the children because she was cohabiting with her paramour, the father of the fifth and youngest child, who sexually abused a young female relative, which the mother refuses to believe. In addition to the emotio nal, physical, and sexual abuse, the children have been subjected to constant turmoil3

and instability, including the mother’s erratic behavior, frequent changes of address, and abandonment on more than one occasion when the mother simply left them in the c are of others. The State has proved by clear and convincing evidence that the mother’s parental rights should be terminated pursuant to section 232.116(1)(f) and that termination of the mother’s rights is in the best interest of the children. See, e.g. , In re C.A. , No. 13

- 1987, 2014 WL 1234470 , at *3 (Iowa Ct. App. Mar. 26, 2014) (affirming termination or rights where mother continued to reside with par amour who sexually abused child and citing cases). The juvenile court’s order is affirmed without fur ther opinion. See Iowa Ct. R. 21.26(1)(a), (b), (e).
AFFIRMED.