Longean Gordon v. Mobile County Department of Pensions & Security

ROBERT M. PARKER, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a termination of parental rights case.

Appellant-mother, on appeal, contends that the trial court abused its judicial discretion in terminating her parental rights.

The record reveals the mother entered University of South Alabama Medical Center on October 21, 1983, and on that date gave birth to Kimberly Ann. Some hours later that night, the mother surreptitiously left the hospital, leaving the baby. The mother had given a false address on her *1089admission to the hospital and it was several days before the Department of Pensions and Security…