In Re Jazlyn P.

OPINION

Justice ROBINSON,

for the Court.

The respondent father, Michael Patino, appeals from a Family Court decree terminating his parental rights with respect to his daughter, Jazlyn P. 1 On appeal, Mr. Patino argues that the justice of the Family Court who presided over the termination-of-parental-rights trial (1) improperly admitted into evidence certain exhibits during the trial and (2) erred in terminating Mr. Patino’s parental rights since, in his view, there was insufficient evidence in the record of cruel and abusive conduct.

This case came before the Supreme Court for oral argument…