Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Adoption
Court properly terminated parental rights of mother to her 9-year-old daughter, in contested adoption proceeding filed by child's biological father and his girlfriend. Unmarried couple does have standing to adopt, where one or both is related to the child by blood. Court's finding of unfitness based on depravity not against manifest weight of evidence; GAL found, by Googling child's name, photos of mother, who was an exotic dancer, on Internet, in sexually suggestive positions of bondage. (LAMPKIN and REYES, concurring.)