Adoption of Tina

The parents of Tina, who was born in March, 1996, appeal from decrees of a Juvenile Court judge entered in a combined proceeding adjudicating Tina in need of care and protection and dispensing with their consent to her adoption. Their main claims are that the judge (1) erroneously admitted the findings entered in a 1994 proceeding adjudicating their three other children in need of care and protection, (2) precluded them from controverting those findings, and (3) erroneously admitted reports of a court investigator and others without redacting hearsay statements of their eldest child regarding…