ADOPTION OF RONI

No. 01-P-1780.

56 Mass. App. Ct. 52 (2002)

ADOPTION OF RONI (and a companion case).

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

September 20, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Scott Miller, Jr., for the father.

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the mother.

Richard S. Weitzel, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Susan F. Drogin for the children.

Present: BROWN, COHEN, & GREEN, JJ.


GREEN, J.

The parents of two sisters appeal from a decision of the Juvenile Court, adjudicating the sisters in need of care and protection, committing the sisters to the permanent custody of the department of social services, and terminating the parents' rights to consent to adoption. The father claims that the parents were denied due process by the trial judge's order excluding them from the courtroom during their daughters' testimony.2

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