ADOPTION OF HELGA

No. 19-P-1182.

97 Mass. App. Ct. 521 (2020)

ADOPTION OF HELGA (and a companion case).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

May 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann C. Narris , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the mother.

Richard A. Salcedo for Department of Children and Families.

Alan D. Campbell for the children.

Present: MASSING, NEYMAN, & SINGH, JJ.


In this appeal from decrees terminating her parental rights with respect to two children, the mother contends that the trial judge erroneously applied an adverse inference from the mother's failure to attend the last two days of the seven-day trial. She also contends that the judge erred by terminating her parental

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