In re A.R.B.

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 4830

Syllabus

The juvenile court did not err in granting permanent custody of children to the Department of Job and Family Services. Despite the children's wishes for reunification, their bond with their grandmother, and the fact no adoptive placement was identified, the record demonstrated the children were unsafe in grandmother's custody because grandmother had not remedied the concern of an ongoing relationship with a man who sexually abused grandmother's at the time minor daughter who subsequently gave birth to the three children subject to the proceedings. Additionally, the magistrate's failure to properly inquire whether the Indian Child Welfare Act applied was not plain error because that issue could have easily been raised and litigated at the trial level after the grandmother and mother were put on notice.