Legal Opinion
In Re Michael C.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided May 12, 1989No. 88-105-AppealPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
The parents of Michael C. are before this court on their respective appeals from a judgment of the Family Court in which the trial justice found that the couple’s thirteen-year-old son had been sexually abused by his father 1 and neglected by both parents.
At the Family Court hearing, counsel for the Department of Children and Their Families (DCF), acting pursuant to G.L.1956 (1985 Reenactment) § 9-17-14, called both parents as adverse witnesses. The mother testified that at the time of the events in question she had been married to Michael’s father for seven years.…
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