In re Stacy W.

BRIGHTMIRE, Presiding Judge.

It was reported to the authorities in the spring of 1978 that little four-year-old Stacy W. was being abused. An investigation disclosed he had been beaten by his mother’s boyfriend and this accounted for a number of bruises over his body and a cut on his forehead. Soon this proceeding was filed by the State of Oklahoma asking the court to declare the child to be a deprived one, make him a ward of the court and terminate the parental rights of the child’s mother.

An adjudicatory hearing was held July 5, 1978 at the conclusion of which the court found the boy to be a…