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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 2-477 / 12-0768 Filed June 27, 2012

IN THE INTEREST OF N.T.J., Minor Child, H.J., Mother, Appellant. ________________________________________________________________

Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Scott County, Christine Dalton, District Associate Judge.

A mother appeals the termination of her parental rights. AFFIRMED.

Jack E. Dusthimer, Davenport, for appellant mother. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Amy C. Licht, Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Walton, County Attorney, and Gerda C. Lane and Julie A. Walton, Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee State. Christine D. Frederick of Zamora, Taylor, Woods & Frederick, Davenport, attorney and guardian ad litem for minor child.

Considered by Eisenhauer, C.J., and Potterfield and Mullins, JJ.

2 POTTERFIELD, J. A mother appeals the decision of the district court terminating her parental rights to her daughter, pursuant to Iowa Code sections 232.116(1)(d), 232.116(1)(e), and 232.116(1)(i) (2011). The mother contends the evidence

admitted against her was improper, and that there is a lack of clear and convincing evidence to support the statutory grounds for termination. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the termination of her parental rights. I. Background Facts and Proceedings We recite the facts as we set them out in the mother's previous appeal of the order waiving reasonable efforts in In re N.T.J., No. 11-2073, 2012 WL 1067075, at *1

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