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IN RE ABDULLAH

No. 53222.

85 Ill.2d 300 (1981)

423 N.E.2d 915

In re HANNIBAL ABDULLAH, Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Lonnie Abdullah, a/k/a Yumba Lasumba, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 26, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner and William J. Scott, Attorneys General, of Springfield, and Thomas J. Difanis, State's Attorney, of Urbana (Donald B. Mackay, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Thomas E. Holum, and Jack Donatelli, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Gary J. Anderson and Robert Biderman, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Springfield, of counsel), for the People.

Marcia Rotunda and Greaves, Lerner & Gadau, of Champaign, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

The circuit court of Champaign County found the defendant to be an unfit father under the Adoption Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 40, par. 1501 et seq.). The finding was based on depravity. As a result, the defendant's consent to the adoption of his son, Hannibal Abdullah, was not required. The Department of Children and Family Services was appointed...

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