In re Samantha L.

The respondent, Kristina L., appeals orders of the Superior Court (Smukler, J.). The court found that the respondent’s daughter, Samantha L., was an abused child, and vested legal custody in the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). We affirm.

The record discloses the following facts. After spending the weekend at home with her mother, mother’s friends, and family, Samantha L., then nine years old, was admitted to Concord Hospital on March 15, 1998, with extreme abdominal pain. The next day she was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and eventually…