CARE AND PROTECTION OF TORRENCE

SJC-10161

454 Mass. 1010 (2009)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF TORRENCE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

June 18, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raffaela C. Hanley for the mother.

Dana Alan Curhan for the father.

Lynne M. Murphy for the Department of Children and Families.

Andrew L. Cohen, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Jeannie M. Rhinehart, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with him) for the children.


The parents of three minor children who were the subjects of a care and protection proceeding in the Juvenile Court appeal from a judgment of a single justice in the county court denying their petition for relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. The parents had sought relief from an order temporarily transferring custody of the children to the Department of Children and Families (department), claiming insufficient evidence of abuse or neglect and the lack of a seventy...

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