IN INTEREST OF D.W.

No. 87-3440.

534 So.2d 738 (1988)

In the INTEREST OF D.W., a Child. K.W., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

As Clarified on Denial of Rehearing December 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Dzurak of Safron, Rooney & Dzurak, Punta Gorda, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Eric J. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


LEHAN, Judge.

This is an appeal by an 18-year-old, natural, unwed mother from an order permanently committing her 21-month-old child to HRS for adoption. The grounds were that appellant had neglected the child. More specifically, the order recites that:

[The mother] neglected said child and has continued to neglect said child by her failure to provide adequate and proper care. [The mother] did not care for said child [while] he was in her home by the fact...

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