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ADOPTION OF RICO

SJC-10280.

453 Mass. 749 (2009)

ADOPTION OF RICO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 7, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Young for the child.

Jeanne M. Kaiser for the father.

Annapurna Balakrishna, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Children and Families.

Andrew L. Cohen, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.

BOTSFORD, J.

Rico is currently twelve years old and has been in the custody of the Department of Social Services2 (department or DCF) since he was three years old. In 2006, after thirteen days of trial in a consolidated care and protection proceeding involving Rico, his four siblings, the children's biological mother and two fathers, a judge in the Juvenile Court determined pursuant to G. L....

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