Matter of Hutchins

This is a parental rights termination case. A petition to that end was filed in the juvenile court by the Hutchinses, the paternal uncle and aunt of the child.

The child was born in February 1983. At that time, her parents had resided together for over four years without being married. In April 1984, when the child was fourteen months of age, the mother was sentenced to jail for six months for a misdemeanor, and the father received a penitentiary felony sentence. During the life of this daughter, the parents and child had freeloaded with the paternal grandmother upon what she could furnish…