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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Landau finds the lower court properly terminated the parental rights of a mother and father to their minor child on grounds that they knowingly placed or allowed the child to remain in conditions that endangered the child’s well-being, that she failed to comply with a court order establishing the child’s return to her custody, and that it is in the child’s best interest. The child was removed from the parent’s custody and placed into foster care after the mother set fire to the family home with the child inside, removed the child from the premises and threw the child over a fence to the ground. Despite the father's claims that he had no criminal history, an FBI background check revealed 15 criminal charges, including 13 felony convictions for identity theft. Neither parent provided verifiable proof of income, and the mother told authorities that the father had trafficked her and that she was a sex worker, a claim she later denied in addition to her previous claims of domestic violence. The lower court found the parents were unable to care for the child or provide a safe environment. Affirmed.