Brown v. Department of Human Resources

Quillian, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by a father of the termination of his parental rights.

In December 1974 Shirley Brown gave birth to twin girls fathered by appellant. It is not clear whether she and appellant were married. She had four older children by a marriage to another man named Brown. She lived with appellant intermittently while pregnant with the twins and until three months after they were born when appellant shot and killed her. As a result appellant was confined in the county jail and the twins placed in a foster home under the court-ordered custody of the county Department…