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Despite wrong man on phone, appeals court upholds termination of father’s parental rights
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The Court of Appeals upheld an Adams County judge’s termination of a man’s parental rights, even though the man was not present and a different person – with his same name – was on the phone during the parental rights hearing instead. The caseworker in a child welfare proceeding learned that the child’s father was incarcerated,…