Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Termination of Parental Rights
(Court opinion corrected 4/9/12.) Respondent-mother's parental rights were terminated as to her son, age 10, who had been living with Respondent's sister in California for two years. Child had been found wandering streets alone at age 5, mother's apartment was continually filthy, and mother often failed drug tests or failed to report for drug tests; court's finding of unfitness was not against manifest weight of evidence. Court's finding that adoption of child by aunt and her husband was in best interests of child was not against manifest weight of evidence. (LAMPKIN and PALMER, concurring.)