In re Catholic Charitable Bureau

This is an appeal by the mother (the only interested parent) from a judgment of a Probate Court allowing the petition of Catholic Charitable Bureau, Inc. of Boston (CCB), pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3, to dispense with the need for her consent to the adoption of her daughter. The child was nearly three years old at the time of the initial hearing (June, 1980) in this matter. (At that time, the mother’s other two children, aged six and four, were living, as now, in New York with the younger child’s paternal grandparents.) At the request of the mother a supplemental hearing was held in March,…