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ADOPTION OF VITO

431 Mass. 550 (2000)

ADOPTION OF VITO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia A. Peel, Special Assistant Attorney General (Lynne M. Murphy with her) for Department of Social Services.

Andrew L. Cohen, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the mother.

Christin A. Anderson, for the child, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, IRELAND, & COWIN, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

This appeal arises from the denial of a petition to dispense with parental consent to adoption.2 The case concerns a child who tested positive for cocaine at the time of his birth in January, 1992, and who has lived with his foster parents (also his preadoptive parents) since he was discharged from the hospital one month after his birth. Vito has never lived with his biological mother.3 He is...

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