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You may have missed this post.
The Illinois Supreme Court took away a child because the Judge didn't look for the father after the child was adopted. The adoptive parents must have been devastated.,
Here's an Illinois case, that the Illinois Supreme Court Overturned an Adoption because the judge did not look for the father and then when found said he was unfit. The IDC ruled the judge wrote his own law....
THE TROUBLING CASE OF BABY RICHARD
At the center of the case is the 3 1/2-year-old boy known as Richard, who was given up for adoption in 1991 by his mother. She, however, refused to divulge the name of the father, and he never consented to the adoption. When he sought his legal rights to his son, a circuit judge ruled him unfit on technical grounds and granted the adoption.
On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the adoption, ruling that the lower courts had erred in finding the father unfit. Barring further appeals, Richard is to be removed from his adoptive parents and go to live with his biological parents, of whose existence he reportedly is unaware.
The Supreme Court found it impossible to overlook Appellate Judge Dom Rizzi's attempt to write broad, new case law to justify the adoption in his 1993 opinion. Rizzi's expansion of the concept of the "best interests" of the child and adaptation of abuse and neglect law to an adoption case were unwarranted.