Partin v. State

BARKDULL, Judge.

Rosaleen Partin, the natural mother of Belinda Lyon (a child born in 1975), brings this appeal from a final judgment of permanent commitment of the circuit court, entered in favor of the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

In January, 1977, a City of Miami police officer visited the apartment of Rosaleen Partin and found her to be in an intoxicated condition; found the condition of her residence to be unclean, and found her child, Belinda Lyon, to be lying in bed covered with her own excrement. Mrs. Partin agreed that she was unable at that time to care…