IN RE R.J.

No. 1-21-1542.

206 N.E.3d 205 (2022)

2022 IL App (1st) 211542

IN RE R.J. a Minor, Respondent-Appellee, (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Reginald J., Respondent-Appellee, (Benjamin C. and Heather S.-C., Intervenor-Appellants)).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, THIRD DIVISION.

Filed February 18, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monique Woody and John Whitcomb , of Monahan Law Group, LLC, of Chicago, for intervenors-appellants.

Kimberly M. Foxx , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( John E. Nowak and Victoria Kennedy , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Sharone R. Mitchell Jr. , Public Defender, of Chicago ( Kathryn Pelech , Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for other appellee.

Charles P. Golbert , Public Guardian, of Chicago ( Kass A. Plain and Christopher J. Williams , as counsel), for minor-appellee.


OPINION

¶ 1 R.J., the minor at the heart of this appeal, was born in July 2019. At birth, she had cocaine, methadone, and heroin in her system. She spent the first three weeks of her life in the hospital while doctors monitored her withdrawal. When she was healthy enough...

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