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PETITION OF DEPT. OF PUB. WELFARE TO DISPENSE

371 Mass. 651 (1976)

358 N.E.2d 794

PETITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE TO DISPENSE WITH CONSENT TO ADOPTION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 31, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin M. Keating & Charlotte Anne Perretta for the appellant.

Brian T. Monahan for the Department of Public Welfare.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., REARDON, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

The mother (appellant here) was fourteen years of age and unmarried when a boy was born to her on July 16, 1968. The Department of Public Welfare (appellee here) accepted the child from the mother for purposes of foster care (see G.L.c. 119, § 23, cl. A1) and promptly placed the child with foster parents who have raised him ever since in their home. In 1969 the department, as...

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