ADOPTION OF RORY

No. 10-P-2246.

80 Mass. App. Ct. 454 (2011)

ADOPTION OF RORY (and a companion case).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

September 23, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beth M. Nussbaum for the father.

Lynne M. Murphy for Department of Children & Families.

Maria L. Rockwell for the children.

Present: COHEN, SMITH, & WOLOHOJIAN, JJ.


SMITH, J.

The Department of Children and Families (department) filed petitions under G. L. c. 119, § 24, alleging that Rory and Sam were children in need of care and protection. After separate trials on each petition, a judge in the Juvenile Court concluded that both children were in need of care and protection and dispensed with the need for their father's consent to adoption, guardianship, custody or other disposition of the

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