In Re Kristen B.

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This matter is before the court on an appeal from a decree of the Family Court granting a petition to terminate parental rights filed by the Department of Children and Their Families (DCF). The petitioners, Catherine B. and Peter H., 1 at that time had three minor children; however, their parental rights were terminated only in regard to their eldest child, Kristen. We affirm the decision of the trial justice. The facts to this case are as follows.

In July 1985 Catherine B. voluntarily placed her three-year-old daughter, Kristen, in the care of DCF, stating that…