Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Abuse and Neglect
Court entered order, after adjudicatory hearing and same-day dispositional hearing, finding that father of minor, then age 6, was fit, wiling, and able to parent minor, and returned minor home to him under order of protective supervision. Finding was against manifest weight of evidence, as court concluded that minor was abused due to excessive corporal punishment and substantial risk of physical injury caused by father, based on physician's opinion that her injuries were nonaccidental and her bruising was inconsistent with father's explanation for injuries. Father made insufficient progress in therapy to parent minor.(PALMER and GORDON, concurring.)