IN RE ERICA S.

No. 1179, September Term, 1986.

71 Md. App. 148 (1987)

524 A.2d 108

IN RE ERICA S.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford C. Peabody, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Sarah R. Kaplan, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Submitted before GILBERT, C.J., and WEANT, J., and JAMES S. GETTY, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


GILBERT, Chief Judge.

As a result of Erica S.'s reporting that she had been sexually abused by her mother's long-time, live-in male companion, DeWitt O., a petition was filed in the District Court for Montgomery County, Juvenile Division. The petition asserted that Erica was a child in need of assistance (CINA), namely, the court's assistance in removing her from the household wherein the alleged assailant resided.

When the case was called to trial in the...

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