In re the Adoption of A.

Fulop, J. S. C.

(tempoiaxily assigned). This is an application for the adoption of an adult.

Mr. and Mrs. C., highly respectable religious people of apparently modest means, seek to adopt A., a 29-year-old man confined to the State Prison at Rahway, for a term of 10 to 20 years on conviction of murder. The C.’s adult son concurs and urges the adoption. All three testified to their love of A. and their desire to give him the assurance of a warm family feeling by adopting him. I have been informed that this procedure is part of a rehabilitation program sponsored by the Fortune Society.

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