Through the Eyes of the Child Initiative

Filed on January 5, 2010
Not designated for permanent publication
A-09-656
SUMMARY: The father’s ongoing alcohol use that prevents him from properly parenting and the mother’s protection of the father and failure to protect the children from him establish that it was proper to terminate the parents’ parental rights.  
Alexandria J., DOB 12/92, and Damion H., DOB 9/96 [...]

Filed on October 28, 2008
Not designated for permanent publication
A-08-280
SUMMARY: Evidence showing that the father spanked or hit his child on the buttocks, thighs and legs to the extent that deep redness was visible two days after the incident and that the father has been warned by DHHS repeatedly for inappropriate discipline was sufficient for adjudication [...]