In Re Oreoluwa O.

Summary

The dissent would affirm the judgment terminating the respondent father's parental rights. It concludes that the record sufficiently supported the trial court's finding that the department made reasonable reunification efforts, that the respondent abandoned the child, and that he lacked standing to assert the child's due process claim based on harms allegedly suffered by the respondent. Justice Espinosa, dissenting, would have deferred to the trial court's factual findings and affirmed the Appellate Court.