ADOPTION OF RHONA

No. 01-P-1472.

57 Mass. App. Ct. 479 (2003)

ADOPTION OF RHONA.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shelli C. Hamer for the mother.

Henry C. Porter for the father.

Sheila L. York, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Lisa M. Sheehan, for the child, was present but did not argue.

Present: DUFFLY, KASS, & TRAINOR, JJ.


TRAINOR, J.

This is an appeal by both the mother and the father from a Boston Juvenile Court judge's grant of a petition of the Department of Social Services (department) to adjudicate their child to be in need of care and protection, pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 26, and to dispense with their consent to the adoption of their child, pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3. The decree issued on June 29, 2000, and findings were entered on September 27, 2000, two years...

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