Adoption of Roni

The parents of two sisters appeal from a decision of the Juvenile Court, adjudicating the sisters in need of care and protection, committing the sisters to the permanent custody of the department of social services, and terminating the parents’ rights to consent to adoption. The father claims that the parents were denied due process by the trial judge’s order excluding them from the courtroom during their daughters’ testimony.2 The mother claims that the parents were denied due process by the court’s failure to hold a so-called seventy-two hour hearing, as directed by G. L. c. 119, § 24,…