Court Opinion

ID: 9657074
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:12:24.908244+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:40.494980
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HARRIS, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent. In termination cases the temptation is sometimes great to allow the needs of the children to yield to the tragic circumstances of a parent. In all respect I suggest that the majority has allowed that to happen here. The background of abuse to these children, formerly tolerated by their unfortunate mother, shows that the children were then in desperate need of rescue. I am not persuaded that the efforts for improvement by their mother, though praiseworthy, sufficiently show a present, even a future, capability to adequately care for her children.
I would reverse and order termination.
LARSON and LAVORATO, JJ., join in this dissent.