Adoption of Cecily

The mother appeals from a decree of the Juvenile Court entered on November 30, 2011, adjudicating her daughter, bom in May of 2009, in need of care and protection and dispensing with the mother’s consent to adoption. She contends that the evidence of her parental unfitness was not clear and convincing, that one of the judge’s key findings is not supported in the record, that the judge erred in admitting in evidence grand jury testimony of the child’s maternal grandmother for full substantive evidentiary value, that the judge erred in drawing a negative inference against the mother because she…