Pacheco v. Bedford

OPINION

Normand Bedford (Bedford), appeals pro se from the entry of a Family Court order terminating his right of visitation with his nine-year-old daughter. At the time his visitation rights were terminated, Bedford was incarcerated at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) for first- and second-degree child sexual molestation. He contends here on appeal that, because of his “mental disability,” the Family Court magistrate erred in failing to provide him court-appointed counsel and the Family Court Chief Judge erred in affirming the visitation termination order.

Bedford’s minor child, a…