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COVELL v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

No. 95-P-1740.

42 Mass. App. Ct. 427 (1997)

WAYNE E. COVELL v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

April 3, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. McMahon, Jr., for the plaintiff.

Present: WARNER, C.J., KAPLAN, & IRELAND, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

On October 12, 1993, Helen Voisin,1 then almost fourteen years old, told her mother and a "mandated reporter" that she had been abused by her stepfather, Wayne E. Covell, a year and a half earlier. At that time Helen's mother had been disabled by her pregnancy from assisting her husband at his general store in Bournedale, and Helen, after school hours, was helping out. According to Helen, when the store closed Helen and Covell...

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