Superior Court Affirms Trial Court’s Decision to Terminate Parental Rights and Change Placement Goal to Adoption Where Children Were Bonded with Foster Parents and Due to the Biological Parents’ Abuse and Underdeveloped Reasoning Skills
Summary
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania in an en banc decision, affirmed the decision of the Blair County Court of Common Pleas (Sullivan, J.), which changed the placement goal of appellants’ two children, who had previously been adjudicated dependent minors, from family reunification with their parents to adoption. The Superior Court also affirmed the involuntary termination of the appellants’ parental rights to these children by the same Blair County Court.