Care & Protection of Quinn

On the basis of a severe beating of six year old Quinn and his eleven year old cousin, Andrew (a pseudonym), administered by Quinn’s father with a cable cord and his fists, a beating witnessed by Quinn’s seven year old sister, Maureen, a *118judge of the Boston Juvenile Court, pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 26, adjudicated Quinn and Maureen to be in need of care and protection. The judge determined that the father “currently is unfit to assume parental responsibility for the subject children; and . . . that said unfitness is likely to continue into the indefinite future to a near certitude.”…