IN RE B.H.

No. 1-08-2729.

905 N.E.2d 893 (2009)

329 Ill.Dec. 55

In re B.H., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Demetrius H., Respondent-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

March 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon B. Nagelberg, St. Charles, for Appellant.

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

Anita Alvarez, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago, (James Fitzgerald, Nancy Kisicki, and Grace E. Zaya, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Minor B.H. was adjudicated a ward of the Juvenile Court of Cook County after the trial court found her adoptive mother, D.H., used excessive corporal punishment. On appeal, D.H. contends the trial court erred in finding she imposed excessive corporal punishment on B.H. We affirm.

FACTS

On February 9, 2008, D.H. went to the grocery store and instructed B.H., who was 15-years-old at the time, and...

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