Care & Protection of Richard

The maternal grandmother of three children as to whom care and protection proceedings were commenced in the Juvenile Court appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying her petition for relief under G. L. c. 211, § 3. In her petition, the grandmother sought an order allowing her to intervene in the proceedings for the sole purpose of presenting evidence that, in separate Juvenile Court proceedings in a different county, a fourth child was returned to the care and custody of the grandmother’s daughter, who is the mother of all four children.1,2 We affirm the judgment of the…