Legal Opinion
Adoption of Keefe
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 10, 2000No. 99-P-1923PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreenberg, J.
Keefe’s mother, a licensed practical nurse, appeals from a 1999 decree of the Boston Juvenile Court dispensing with the need for her consent to his adoption. These proceedings result from a report of suspected child abuse filed pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 51A (51A report), by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) pediatrician who treated Keefe in November of 1996.
*819The mother complains that the medical evidence presented by the Department of Social Services (department) did not prove her unfit in the requisite clear and convincing manner and that the judge improperly admitted and utilized…
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