IN RE STEPHEN K.

Nos. 1-06-2135, 1-06-2061.

867 N.E.2d 81 (2007)

In re STEPHEN K., a Minor, Respondent-Appellee (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Kathy K., Mother of Stephen K., Respondent-Appellant). In re Stephen K., a Minor, Respondent-Appellee (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Stephen K., Sr., Father of Stephen K., Respondent-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

Rehearing Denied April 10, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin A. Burnett, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago, for Appellant (mother Kathy K.).

Richard Devine, State's Attorney, Cook County, Chicago, for Appellee.

Sheldon B. Nagelberg, St. Charles, for Appellant (father Stephen K., Sr.).

Robert F. Harris, Kass A. Plain, and Jean M. Agathen, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for Appellee (Stephen K., the minor).


Justice JOSEPH GORDON delivered the opinion of the court:

At an adjudicatory hearing, the circuit court found the respondents, Kathy K. and Stephen K., medically neglected and exposed their child, S.K., to an injurious environment. At a subsequent dispositional hearing, the court ruled that the respondents were unable for some reason other than financial circumstances alone to care for, protect, train or discipline their child, and the minor was made a ward of the...

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