Doe v. Brown

FINNEY, Chief Justice.

The critical issue in this case is whether the father of a child, conceived as the result of father’s statutory rape of the mother, has any parental rights to that child? The family court first held the father had no rights, and therefore he need not consent to the child’s adoption nor be given notice of the adoption proceedings. Alternatively, the court held that this Father had not complied with the statutory requirements so as to require his consent to the adoption. We agree with the family court’s second holding, and affirm.

Baby Girl Ashlie was conceived as the…