In Re Frances

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter is before the Supreme Court on appeal from a decree of the Family Court terminating parental rights. The Department of Children and Their Families (DCF) had petitioned for the termination of this mother’s parental rights in regard to all five of her children under G.L.1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 15-7-7(b)(2), as amended by P.L.1983, ch. 232, § 1, alleging that the mother is unfit by reason of conduct seriously detrimental to the children, the conduct being of a cruel and abusive nature to her fourth child, an eleven-month-old girl. We affirm.

The mother had four…