In re Brandon K.

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Termination of Parental Rights
Citation
Case Number: 
2017 IL App (2d) 170075
Decision Date: 
Thursday, July 13, 2017
District: 
2d Dist.
Division/County: 
Kane Co.
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
BURKE

Court entered order terminating parental rights of respondent father to his 3 minor children, based on depravity, as Respondent had been found guilty, after jury trial, of 1st-degree murder by strangulation of the children's mother.  Unfitness determination may not be postpoined on the basis of the udnerlying criminal conduct being under appellate review. Finding of unfitness based on depravity is not against manifest weight of evidence. (McLAREN and ZENOFF, concurring.)