In re Fathima Ashanti K. J.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Rita G. Bolstad, J.

Respondent mother has been charged with neglect alleging her child was born with a positive toxicology for cocaine. She has not cooperated with a drug treatment program and she has had no prenatal care. An amended petition regarding the *552newborn child was subsequently brought against the putative father alleging a history of drug abuse and psychiatric hospitalizations.

In support of these allegations the court heard the testimony of the caseworker and received in evidence the hospital records of the mother, child and putative father.

The caseworker…