Supreme Court of Illinois

In a matter of termination of parental rights based on depravity for a father convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault, the termination is affirmed where the legislature's failure to use the language "predatory criminal sexual assault" in the enumeration of offenses for which a parent may be presumed unfit on the basis of depravity appears to be a drafting error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2006
• Published 05/18/2006

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Frank Young, State's Attorney, Danville (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Laura Wunder, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Norbert J. Goetten, Robert J. Biderman, David E. Mannchen, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Springfield, of counsel), for the People., Kass A. Plain, Janet L. Barnes, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for amicus curiae Robert F. Harris, Cook County Public Guardian.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kimberly Edwards Blakely, Rossville, Robert E. McIntire, Public Defender, Danville, for appellee.