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ADOPTION OF MELVIN

No. 07-P-1380.

71 Mass. App. Ct. 706 (2008)

ADOPTION OF MELVIN.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 12, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Sirotkin Butler for the mother.

Timothy J. Casey, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Robert E. Young for the child.

Present: McHUGH, ARMSTRONG, & MEADE, JJ.

McHUGH, J.

After a seven-day trial, a judge of the Juvenile Court wrote a thoughtful and comprehensive opinion concluding that the mother was unfit to parent her child, whom we shall call Melvin, and that her unfitness was highly likely to continue indefinitely. As a result, the judge issued a decree dispensing with the mother's consent to adoption. See G. L. c. 119, § 26; G. L. c. 210, § 3.2 The mother appeals and we affirm...

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