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PEOPLE EX REL. SKOKAS v. McCARTHY

7 Misc.2d 963 (1957)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Barbara Skokas, Petitioner, v. Henry L. McCarthy, as Commissioner of Welfare of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

May 14, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin I. Perlmutter for petitioner.

William Miller for New York Foundling Hospital, respondent.

Peter Campbell Brown, Corporation Counsel (Selma Teirstein of counsel), for Henry L. McCarthy, respondent.

OWEN McGIVERN, J.

In this habeas corpus proceeding, the petitioner is a young girl, presently 16 years of age, and the respondents are the commissioner of welfare of the City of New York, and the superintendent of the New York Foundling Hospital. It appears that during the month of June, 1956, the girl found herself to be pregnant by a neighborhood boy, not of a good history, and in August of that year she was admitted to the foundling shelter. On November...

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