CARE AND PROTECTION OF OLGA

No. 02-P-595.

57 Mass. App. Ct. 821 (2003)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF OLGA (and two companion cases).

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

April 23, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry C. Porter for Olga.

Deborah W. Kirchwey for the mother.

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

Christopher E. Lee for Department of Social Services.

Andrew R. Gustafson for Joseph & another.

Present: LENK, BERRY, & MCHUGH, JJ.


MCHUGH, J.

Parental cocaine addiction and domestic violence led the Department of Social Services (department) to file a petition for care and protection of Olga, then twelve, and her brothers, Joseph, then four, and Daniel, then two and one-half, in February, 1998. The department obtained custody of the children and placed them in a foster home. Ultimately, the department sought a dispensation from parental consent...

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