IN RE M.M.E.

Court of Appeals Case No. 19A-JT-2139.

146 N.E.3d 922 (2020)

IN RE the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of M.M.E. (Minor Child) and J.H. (Father) J.H., Appellant-Respondent, v. Indiana Department of Child Services, Appellee-Petitioner, and Lake County Court Appointed Special Advocate, Appellee-Casa.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

Ordered Published March 25, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney for Appellant: Renee M. Ortega , Lake County Juvenile Public, Defender's Office, Crown Point, Indiana.

Attorneys for Appellee Indiana Department of Child Services: Curtis T. Hill, Jr. , Attorney General of Indiana, Abigail R. Recker , Deputy Attorney General, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Attorney for Appellee Lake County Court Appointed Special Advocate: Donald W. Wruck , Wruck Paupore PC, Dyer, Indiana.


Case Summary

J.H. ("Father") appeals the termination of his parental rights to M.M.E. ("Child"). He doesn't present a sympathetic case: Child was conceived when Father, then thirty-five or thirty-six years old, illegally had sex with his fifteen-year-old stepdaughter. Under Indiana law, though, even fathers like J.H. are...

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