In re Ann Marie

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal of a mother, hereinafter referred to as Kathy,1 from a Family Court decree granting a petition of the Department for Children and their Families (DCF or the department) to terminate Kathy’s parental rights to Ann Marie, her daughter, in accordance with G.L. 1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 15-7-7, as amended by P.L. 1984, ch. 204, § 3.2

The plight of this young child has a long and protracted history, during the course of which we have already had on one previ*466ous occasion the opportunity to address. See In re Ann Marie, — R.I. —, 461 A.2d 394 (1983). The facts…