In re K.C.H.
Montana Supreme Court
1DissentJustice Trieweiler
¶31 I dissent from the majority Opinion.
¶32 The Appellant father had his daughter snatched from him at the hospital following her birth without a prior court order and without any evidence of prior conduct by him which would have endangered the child, but based simply on prior conduct of the child’s mother toward other children. He was prescribed a treatment program which could not have been related to the reasons for which his daughter was taken because his daughter’s abduction had nothing to do with him or his parenting abilities. There was obviously nothing he could have done to recover…
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