In Re Cooper

CROCKETT, Justice.

Marvin Lentini and his wife, Judith D. Lentini, filed a petition with the Juvenile Court of Utah County to obtain custody of two children, Cindy Cooper, then age 6, and Tracy Caine, then age 4, for the stated purpose of ultimate adoption. After a hearing the court denied their petition and they appeal. :

Pursuant to prior proceedings before that court in the interest of those children, they *298had been permanently taken from the cus-: tody of their natural parerits and placed with the Utah County Department of Public Welfare, with the view to eventual placement and adoption.1

Mrs.…