Legal Opinion
Covell v. Department of Social Services
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided April 3, 1997No. 95-P-1740PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
On October 12, 1993, Helen Voisin,1 then almost fourteen years old, told her mother and a “mandated reporter” that she had been abused by her stepfather, Wayne E. Covell, a year and a half earlier. At that time Helen’s mother had been disabled by her pregnancy from assisting her husband at his general store in Boumedale, and Helen, after school hours, was helping out. According to Helen, when the store closed Helen and Covell would sit together and watch television. On three or four occasions, Helen said, Covell fondled her breasts and put his hand down her pants.
Upon a G. L. c. 119, § 51 A,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Schulte v. Director of the Division of Employment SecurityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Stowe v. BolognaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Friedman v. Board of Registration in MedicineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Flynn v. Contributory Retirement Appeal BoardMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1984
- Aronson v. Brookline Rent Control BoardMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1985
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Covell v. Department of Social ServicesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Soe v. Sex Offender Registry BoardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2013
- Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Inc. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Bernier v. DuPontMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1999
- Covell v. Department of Social ServicesMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002
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