State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Penchansky

This ease involves an appeal by The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, and the Guardian Ad Litem [hereafter “HRS”], from the denial of a petition to *723terminate a mother’s parental rights, and a cross-appeal by the mother from the trial court finding that she failed to substantially comply with a performance agreement.

R.W.P. was born in August of 1990, while his mother Cecilia Penchansky [hereafter the “mother”], was incarcerated at the Women’s Detention Center. The mother had been incarcerated several weeks prior to R.W.P.’s birth, on charges that she had sexually abused…