In re Shanaye C.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bryanne A. Hamill, J.

*888Administration for Children’s Services (hereinafter ACS) filed a petition on April 24, 2002 charging respondent father with abuse of three subject children, Shanaye C., age 11, Quincy C., age 6, and Zoey C., age 4. The petition alleges essentially that on or about April 20, 2002, at approximately 4:00 p.m., respondent father, James B., strangled Sabrina C., the mother of the subject children, and also strangled the children’s maternal grandmother, Susan G., resulting in their deaths and thereby removing from the children’s lives their primary…