State Dept. of Human Resources v. Ajt

In May 2002, the State Department of Human Resources ("DHR") received a report that five children were being left at home alone. Upon investigation, DHR discovered that the children, G.M.A., T.A.A., A.D.A., A.J.A., and F.M.T., whose ages ranged from eight to one, were being left at home by their mother, D.A., who had a methamphetamine addiction, and A.J.T., the father of A.J.A. and F.M.T. DHR instituted a safety plan that allowed the children to remain in the home provided that A.J.T. supervised the children's contact with the mother and that the mother was not left alone with the children.…