In Re Kelly S.

OPINION

GOLDBERG, Justice.

This case came before the Supreme Court from a Family Court decree terminating the parental rights of the respondents to their minor child Kelly. Even though Kelly was born on May 4,1990, the trial justice correctly observed that Kelly’s plight originated in March 1987, as set forth in In re Jean Marie W., 559 A.2d 625 (R.I.1989).

In In re Jean Marie W. we affirmed a Family Court decree that terminated the parental rights of Kelly’s mother to her two older children who were born in 1982 and 1985. 1 Id. at 627. The horrific facts of that case revealed that mother “had…