People v. Sandvik

Lela Sandvik and William Craft, parents of the minor child T.E., appeal from an order of adjudication declaring them to be unfit and from a dispositional order terminating their parental rights. Appellants contend that the trial court’s finding of unfitness is against the manifest weight of the evidence.

T.E. was born on January 25, 1981, and left the hospital in good health. Within a short time she was readmitted to the hospital with double pneumonia, severe, bleeding diaper rash, and thrush. During the infant’s stay in the hospital, the State filed a petition for adjudication of wardship. On…