State v. Blum

This appeal questions whether the parental rights of a mentally ill mother of an illegitimate child may be terminated under the provisions of ORS 419.523(2) (a). The defendant is unable to provide physical or emotional care for the child, and competent medical testimony indicates her condition is probably permanent.

The child involved was born September 30, 1962, and is one of the defendant’s three children. The defendant was committed to Dammasch State (mental) Hospital on July 2, 1963. At the time of the hearing on the petition to terminate parental rights, May 31, 1967, she had been in and…