In re B.P.
Annotate this CaseFollowing a hearing on a petition filed by the Department of Health and Human Services to terminate Mother and Father’s parental rights to their son, the district court found three grounds of unfitness as to Mother, that Father was unwilling and unable to protect his son from jeopardy, and that these circumstances were unlikely to change within a time that was reasonably calculated to meet the son’s needs. The court also found that termination was in the son’s best interest. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding that the evidence was sufficient to support the district court’s finding that they were not fit to parent their son, and the district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that termination of both parents’ parental rights was in the son’s best interest.
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