In re Permanent Surrender of Anne K.

This matter now comes before the court upon the motion for reconsideration and/or motion for a new trial as to this court’s judgment of April 18, 1969, wherein the court denied the motion to vacate and set aside its order of February 17, 1969, approving the permanent surrender of Anne K., the infant daughter of the movant, to the Cuyahoga County Welfare Department, hereafter referred to as the department.

The undisputed early history of this case discloses that Martha, age 20 years, the mother of Anne, became pregnant by Dudley in May of 1968 and that in September 1968, in the fourth month of…