{"id":4290,"date":"2017-01-01T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2017-01-17T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:12:35","slug":"parental-rights-terminated-for-child-conceived-by-statutory-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4290","title":{"rendered":"Parental Rights Terminated for Child Conceived by Statutory Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parental rights of father terminated when newborn child was conceived as the result of &#8220;statutory sexual assault&#8221; (formerly known as &#8220;statutory rape&#8221;) to which father pled guilty, and father knew of the child&#8217;s birth but failed to make reasonable efforts to maintain contact with the child for a period of more than four months preceding filing the of the petition or provide any financial support. \u00a0<em>Adoption of Baby Girl R.<\/em>, 6 Fid.Rep.3d 325 (O.C. Berks Co. 5\/5\/2016), <em>aff&#8217;d sub nom. In re: Adoption of B.G.R.<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S62017-16m%20-%2010285272214014755.pdf?cb=1\">No. 563 MDA 2016<\/a> (Pa. Super. 10\/19\/2016) (affirmed on grounds of lack of effort to maintain contacts with child and issue of statutory sexual assault not decided; non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parental rights of father terminated when newborn child was conceived as the result of &#8220;statutory sexual assault&#8221; (formerly known as &#8220;statutory rape&#8221;) to which father pled guilty, and father knew of the child&#8217;s birth but failed to make reasonable efforts &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[211,563],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-adoption","tag-statutory-sexual-assault","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}