IN RE ANDREA F.

No. 93595.

802 N.E.2d 782 (2003)

208 Ill.2d 148

280 Ill.Dec. 531

In re ANDREA F., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois et al., Appellants, v. T.F., Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

December 18, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Paul A. Logli, State's Attorney, Rockford (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, John P. Schmidt, assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Martin P. Moltz, David A. Bernhard and Paul Benjamin Linton, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, of counsel), for the People.

Kathryn Bischoff, Rockford, for appellee.

Charles P. Golbert and Allison D. Ortlieb, of the Cook County Office of the Public Guardian, Chicago, for amicus curiae Patrick T. Murphy, Cook County Public Guardian.


Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

The State and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) appeal from a judgment of the appellate court reversing the circuit court's termination of T.F.'s parental rights. The circuit court of Winnebago County adjudicated T.F. an unfit parent, terminated his parental rights to his daughter, Andrea, and appointed DCFS guardian of Andrea with the power to consent to adoption. The appellate court reversed...

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