In Re Adoption Of Michael Gregory Hyatt

The Hyatts Sr. live in Medford Lakes, New Jersey. When Roberta Hyatt was a college student, she went to live at the residence of Hyatt Sr. who was then married to Roberta's aunt. In 1966, after the death of her aunt, Roberta married Hyatt Sr. At that time she was twenty-one and he was fifty-nine. For the first six months of Michael's life he was cared for by his natural parents without any untoward events. In February of 1969, when Michael was seven months old, Roberta had a serious mental breakdown. She was suffering from delusions and felt that her mother was molesting her child and that her husband was trying to hurt her and the child. She ran away from home with the child and ended up in a motel where she called her husband's brother. She was taken by the family to the Trenton State Hospital.