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ADOPTION OF LARRY

434 Mass. 456 (2001)

ADOPTION OF LARRY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 28, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia A. Peel, Special Assistant Attorney General (Lynne M. Murphy with her) for Department of Social Services.

Harold N. Robertson for the child.

Dawn E. LiVigne for the mother.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

SPINA, J.

A judge in the Boston Juvenile Court awarded temporary custody of three and one-half month old Larry to the Department of Social Services (department) on its care and protection petition, filed in December, 1997, after the department substantiated a report filed pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 51A, by health care providers at Children's Hospital in Boston that Larry was suffering from shaken baby syndrome and that Larry's parents were his sole caretakers...

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