Watson Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Cheep Justice Jones,

On December 12, 1968, appellant gave birth to Stephanie Watson at the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. Appellant was then an unmarried fourteen-year-old tenth grade student at the Gratz Neighborhood High School. The acknowledged father, who was sixteen years old on the date of the infant’s birth, is Leon Yan Randolph, Jr.

On December 23, 1968, appellant relinquished custody of her infant daughter to the CMldren’s Aid Society of Philadelphia. On April 7, 1969, appellant signed a petition for the voluntary relinqMshment of parental rights in the infant…