IN RE M.B.C.

No. 5-83-0782.

125 Ill. App.3d 512 (1984)

466 N.E.2d 273

In re M.B.C. et al., Minors (Marietta Faye Kellum et al., Petitioners-Appellees, v. Ernest Cornes, Respondent-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed June 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. Eisenberg, of Legal Clinic of Southern Illinois University, of Carbondale, and Julianne Cordts, law student, for appellant.

Charles R. Garnati, of Herrin, for appellees.


Judgment affirmed.

PRESIDING JUSTICE WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondent Ernest Cornes appeals an order of the circuit court of Williamson County terminating his parental rights after a finding that he was an unfit father and a depraved person. Petitioners Donnell Kellum and Marietta Faye Kellum filed this action on May 27, 1983, seeking to adopt M.B.C., then seven, and M.J.C., then five, her children from her earlier marriage to respondent...

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