In Re Brown

These consolidated appeals lie from an order of the circuit court of Vermilion County in which the court found the minor to be neglected, found both natural parents unfit, declared the minor a ward of the court and placed her in the guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services with power to consent to adoption.

Both parents have appealed. Each raises as an issue (1) that the trial court’s finding of unfitness as to himself is against the manifest weight of the evidence, and (2) that the trial court erred in failing to make an explicit finding in the order that the appointment…