K.W. v. State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

LEHAN, Judge.

This is an appeal by an 18-year-old, natural, unwed mother from an order permanently committing her 21-month-old child to HRS for adoption. The grounds were that appellant had neglected the child. More specifically, the order recites that:

[The mother] neglected said child arid has continued to neglect said child by her failure to provide adequate and proper care. [The mother] did not care for said child [while] he was in her home by the fact she did not assume primary responsibility for the child and did not change soiled diapers and bedsheets, did not adequately feed the child,…