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· 1/12/2015

Strzelczyk v. Pennsylvania

Citations

  • 135 S. Ct. 988
  • 190 L. Ed. 2d 867
  • 83 U.S.L.W. 3580
  • 2015 U.S. LEXIS 582

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that DCF's attorney's conflict at merits stage in juvenile proceeding cured by order precluding State from relying at termination on findings and conclusions in merits decision
  • concluding that mother’s neglect of her first seven children “established a pattern of abuse and neglect relevant to her ability to properly care for” child in current neglect proceeding
  • parental rights terminated based in part on evidence of mother’s inability to protect children from harm and neglect
  • court may rely on evidence relating to prior abuse of siblings to show pattern relevant to child in current proceeding
  • “The court may rely on evidence of a parent’s treatment of siblings to show a pattern of abuse and neglect, and a general inability to protect the children from harm.”
  • “The court may rely on evidence of a parent’s treatment of siblings to show a pattern of abuse and neglect, and a general inability to protect the children from harm.”

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