MTR OF TRICIA LASHAWNDA M.


113 Misc.2d 287 (1982)

In the Matter of Tricia Lashawnda M., Respondent.

Family Court, Queens County.

March 30, 1982


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shafter & Shafter (Allan D. Shafter of counsel), for petitioner. Murray Fox for respondent. Martin Goldman, Law Guardian.


STANLEY GARTENSTEIN, J.

To all the "horror stories" of the foster care system which have recently surfaced must now be added the frightening matter at bar. What is most disturbing, more so than had this matter involved out-and-out deceit or overreaching, is the fact that the trampling of one mother's rights to her own child results here from the uninspired application of standard social work platitudes which so often reinforce the sad but crushing reality...

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