People v. Davis

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The director of the Cook County Department of Public Aid filed a petition in the Juvenile Court alleging that a two-year-old child named Mario Davis was not receiving proper care because of the mental illness of his mother. After a hearing, the child was placed in the temporaiy custody of the Division of Child Welfare, Department of Children and Family Services of the State of Illinois.

Three subsequent hearings were held on the issue of the child’s dependency. At the first of these, Lillian Davis, the child’s mother, was called…