People Ex Rel. Slawek v. Covenant Children's Home

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County denying a petition for habeas corpus filed by the petitioner, Paul Peter Slawek, who seeks to obtain the custody of a child from the adoptive parents, Larry and Eleanor Moreland, respondents herein. The child was born out of wedlock and placed for adoption through the Covenant Children’s Home, a licensed adoption agency, also a respondent, after the natural mother validly consented to the adoption.

Slawek’s petition alleged, inter alia, that he was the father of the child and the adoption agency knew this fact but…