Richland County Department of Public Welfare v. Mickens

Bussey, Justice.

The appellant, a Negro girl, is the mother of the infant Ollie William Davis, an illegitimate child born on July 19, 1961, appellant being at that time thirteen years of age. In a proceeding commenced by respondent on January 31, 1964, pursuant to Section 31-51.1 et seq., of the 1962 Code of Laws of South Carolina, the judge of the Juvenile Domestic Relations Court for Richland County judicially terminated the parental rights of the appellant to her child by order dated May 27, 1964, finding that said infant had been voluntarily abandoned for more than one year by appellant.…