In re the Termination of Parental Rights Over A.M.L.

(specially concurring).

Counsel for the child by letter, and not by brief, takes the position that no appropriate position can be taken on behalf of the child until this Court renders a decision on the appeal of the father’s murder conviction. This posits an overwhelming con*360cern for this author because the termination is based, inter alia, upon the father’s murder conviction of the child’s mother and grandmother. Where are we, mentally and legally, should this murder conviction be reversed? Have we been presumptive by affirming this termination at this time?

A divorce action was pending between…