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MATTER OF ADOPTION OF TRUSLOW

No. 15108.

280 S.E.2d 312 (1981)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF Deena Lee Slater TRUSLOW.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

July 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. E. Mohler, Charleston, for Truslow.

A. Dana Kahle, Wheeling, for Shelek.

HARSHBARGER, Chief Justice:

Susan Kay Truslow, the natural mother of Deena Lee Slater Truslow, appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Ohio County entered on May 5, 1980, granting a petition by Rosetta Marie Shelek to adopt Deena.

Susan Truslow killed her husband, Claude, on February 4, 1979. Sometime in March or April of that year she placed her then fifteen-month-old daughter, Deena, in Mrs. Shelek's home and on June 22, 1979, signed a consent for...

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