R.O.M. v. B.B.

The testimony in this case is often confusing and, as the majority notes, there are numerous inconsistencies in it. Nonetheless, among the testimony presented to the trial court that could be pertinent to the issues of “unfitness” and/or “voluntary relinquishment” is the following.

The grandmother, B.B., testified that she learned at the time her daughter became pregnant that R.O.M. might be the father of the child. W.K.D.J. (“the child”) was born in May 1995 and three months after his birth the grandmother began keeping the child. The father testified that he suspected in May 1996 that the…