RITA T. v. State

OPINION

DIMOND, Senior Justice.

When Rita T.’s minor daughter C. L. T., was two years old, Rita and her boyfriend burned the child with a cigarette and beat her with a belt and a stick. As a result of these events, proceedings were commenced in superior court to terminate Rita’s parental rights. After hearings in 1976 and 1977, the superior court adjudged C. L. T. to be a neglected child and committed her to the custody of the Department of Health and Social Services. The superior court terminated Rita’s parental rights under subdivision (c)(3) of AS 47.10.080.1 Rita appealed to this court and…