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DOE v. BROWN

No. 24680.

331 S.C. 491 (1997)

489 S.E.2d 917

John DOE and Jane Doe, Respondents, v. Charles R. BROWN, Jr., and Baby Girl Ashlie, an infant under the age of seven (7) years, Defendants, of whom Charles R. Brown, Jr., is Appellant, and Baby Girl Ashlie, an infant under the age of seven (7) is, Respondent, and Charles R. Brown, Sr., and Mrs. Charles R. Brown, Sr., Intervenors-Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided September 2, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. W. Bannister, Jr., of Hill, Wyatt & Bannister, L.L.P., Greenville, for appellants.

Stephen A. Yacobi and D. Denby Davenport, Jr., both of Davenport & Yacobi, P.A., Greenville, for respondents.

James Fletcher Thompson, of Thompson & Sinclair, Spartanburg, Guardian ad Litem for Baby Girl Ashlie.

FINNEY, Chief Justice.

The critical issue in this case is whether the father of a child, conceived as the result of father's statutory rape of the mother, has any parental rights to that child? The family court first held the father had no rights, and therefore he need not consent to the child's adoption nor be given notice of the adoption proceedings. Alternatively, the court held that this Father had not complied with the statutory requirements so as to require...

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