In Re Chester J.’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. ““(ii) Conduct toward any child of a cruel or abusive nature; [or] “(iv) The child has been placed with [DCYF] and the court has previously involuntarily terminated parental rights to another child of the parent and the parent continues to lack the ability or willingness to respond to services which would rehabilitate the parent; and provided, that the court finds it is improbable that an additional period of services would result in reunification within a reasonable period of time considering the child’s age and the need for a permanent home.” Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Jared S.

2. “expressed 'complete and total ignorance of how the child's horrific injuries were inflicted[,]' " and that the child's mother provided inconsistent explanations for the child's severe injuries. Id. at 776, 777 . This Court held that "the state [wa]s not required to prove which parent actually inflicted the abuse[,]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Sophia M.

3. “[i]t was reasonable for the trial justice to conclude on the basis of the evidence before him that a loving, caring parent would have known the source of the injuries and would have reported this information to physicians or to the police if she had not caused them herself or permitted them to happen.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Sophia M.