SCDSS v. Willie B.

THIS OPINION HAS NO
PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY
PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

South Carolina
Department of Social Services, Respondent,

v.

Willie B. Appellant.

In the interest of N.B., a minor under the
age of 18.

Appeal From Williamsburg County

George M. McFaddin, Jr., Family Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-642

Submitted November 3, 2008 – Filed
November 17, 2008   

AFFIRMED

Marian D. Nettles, of Lake City, for Appellant.

Helen T. McFadden, of Kingstree, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Willie
B. appeals from the family court’s order
requiring entry of his name into the South Carolina Department of Social
Services Central Registry for Child Abuse and Neglect.  See S.C. Code Ann. § 20-7-650(O) (Supp. 2007).[1]  After a thorough review of the
record and the family court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law, pursuant
to Ex Parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), and S.C. Dep’t of Soc. Servs. v. Frederick Downer,
Sr., S.C. Sup. Ct. Order dated February 2, 2005 (expanding the procedure
set forth in Cauthen to situations where an indigent person appeals from
an order imposing measures, other than the termination of parental rights,
which are based upon child abuse and neglect), the family court’s order is

AFFIRMED.[2]

HEARN, C.J., SHORT and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

[1]Repealed by Act No. 361, 2008 S.C. Acts 3623,
which created Title 63 and transferred provisions from Chapter 7, Title 20 to
Title 63. 

[2] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to
Rule 215, SCACR.