In re Star R.

(Court opinion corrected 9/30/14.) Respondent-father of minor, age 9, appealed court order placing minor in custody of DCFS Guardianship Administrator, based on findings that father is unable to care for minor and that it is in best interest of minor to remove her from father's custody. Court found that there had not been enough progress in the case with individual assessments and treatment referrals. Although State failed to establish, by preponderance of evidence, that father was unfit or unable to care for minor, decision to place minor in DCFS Guardianship was not against manifest weight of evidence. Respondent was established as minor's father only recently, eight months after State filed petition alleging abuse and neglect by minor's mother; Respondent saw minor for the first time two weeks prior to dispositional hearing, and has met with minor only twice; and caseworker has not spoken with minor as to whether she is open to visiting with Respondent.(HARRIS and PIERCE, concurring.)