In re Wilkinson

By Judge E. Ballard Baker

This case is before the Court as the result of a foster care review plan filed with this Court on April 29, 1979, in which plan the Henrico County Department of Public Welfare requested the termination of parental rights of Dorsey Wilkinson, III, the father of Sherry Ellen Wilkinson, now ten years old. Evidence on that request was heard on July 23, 1979.

The case originally came to the Circuit Court on an appeal taken by the father to a Juvenile Court order of July 12,1974, committing Sherry to the Department of Public Welfare, with permanent custody for the purpose of…