Kershaw County Department of Social Services v. McCaskill

Ness, Justice:

Appellant Catherine McCaskill, a blind nineteen year old woman, appeals from an order removing from her custody, Jonathan McCaskill, her infant son. The family court ordered the Kershaw County Department of Social Services to assume responsibility for the child, but failed to set forth the salient facts on which it based its decision to remove.

S. C. Code (1976) § 20-10-170 (Cum. Supp.) provides:

“(E) A child shall not be removed from the custody of the parent — unless the court finds that:(1) The child has been physically injured as defined in § 20-10-20 and there is a…