#### IN THE MATTER OF D.M.

No. 379A05

(Filed 16 December 2005)

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals,-N.C. App.-, 615 S.E.2d 669 (2005), affirming an order terminating respondent’s parental rights entered 8 October 2003 by Judge Avril U. Sisk in District Court, Mecklenburg County. Heard in the Supreme Court 15 November 2005.

Mecklenburg County Attorney’s Office, by J. Edward, Yeager, Jr., for petitioner-appellee Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services.

David Childers for respondent-appellant father.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.