In re the Appeal in Pima County Juvenile Severance Action No. S-114487

OPINION

LACAGNINA Judge.

In this appeal, the child challenges the juvenile court’s order denying the petition to terminate the parental rights of the child’s putative father. The Division of Child Advocacy of the Pima County Attorney’s Office has been granted leave to file an amicus brief supporting the child’s position. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

The mother and the father were dating in high school in Texas when the mother became pregnant. The mother was 17 years of age when she gave birth to the child in October 1991 in Arizona, having been sent here from Texas by her father to…