In re Richmond

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

Pursuant to a pleading entitled “PETITION AND RELINQUISHMENT OF CHILD FOR ADOPTION”, which Nina Richmond filed in the trial court during August, 1969, alleging that an illegitimate female child born to her, nine days previously, came under this State’s Juvenile Code as a delinquent child, and that for the reason that petitioner had no home of her own and was financially unable to care for the child, she believed it was to the child’s best interest to do so, the court entered an order, the same day, making the infant a ward of the court and committing her “into the custody…