In a rare move, the state Court of Appeals has reversed a decision that severed a mother's rights to her two children, saying state child-welfare workers presented a case "not sufficiently rooted in the evidence."
The court cited numerous flaws in the evidence — or a lack thereof — presented by a Department of Child Safety caseworker, as well as a state-appointed psychologist who evaluated the mother. Writing for the three-judge panel, Acting Presiding Judge Peter B. Swann concluded there appeared to be only one motive to separate the mother from her kids: that the children were adoptable.
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