CARE AND PROTECTION OF BRUCE

No. 97-P-2077.

44 Mass. App. Ct. 758 (1998)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF BRUCE.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

May 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Wagner for the mother.

Stephen Dick, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Daniel R. Katz for the child.

Present: KASS, JACOBS, & PORADA, JJ.


KASS, J.

For the first two and one-half years of her son Bruce's life, his mother, Laura,1 took better than adequate care of him. The child was born June 13, 1991. On January 30, 1994, Laura called the police for assistance and wound up in Pembroke Hospital, a psychiatric facility. Laura had manifested paranoid delusions. She had told police and medical personnel at Cardinal Cushing Hospital, to which she had initially been taken, that...

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