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CUSTODY OF A MINOR (NO. 2)

378 Mass. 712 (1979)

393 N.E.2d 379

CUSTODY OF A MINOR (No. 2).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jinanne S.J. Elder for the defendant.

Diane T. Lund for the minor child.

Nancy R. Rice for Beth Israel Hospital Association.

E. Michael Sloman, Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of Public Welfare.

Martin Guggenheim, Lydia Tugendrajch & Marcia Robinson Lowry, for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Children's Rights Project, & John Reinstein, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

On April 28, 1978, Judith Arons, a psychiatric social worker employed at Beth Israel Hospital, petitioned the Boston Juvenile Court for a determination that the appellant mother's newly-born child was in need of care and protection. See G.L.c. 119, § 24. An order transferring temporary custody of the child to the Department of Public Welfare was entered, and the matter was continued until July 19, 1978, for a hearing. At that hearing, the judge...

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