A.W. v. Department of Children & Family Services

WHATLEY, Judge.

A.W., Sr. (the Father), appeals the order terminating his parental rights to his son, A.W., Jr. We reverse.

The Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) filed a petition for termination of the Father’s parental rights to A.W., Jr., because of the Father’s arrest for killing the child’s mother. The child was seven months old at the time of the shooting, and he was in the home at the time of the shooting. In the order of termination, the trial court stated that the Father told a child protective services investigator that he and the mother tussled. The court stated that…