Case Name: In the Matter of the McM. Children, Alleged to be Neglected. Herman McM., Appellant; Commissioner of Social Services, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-12-03
Citations: 234 A.D.2d 5
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the McM. Children, Alleged to be Neglected. Herman McM., Appellant; Commissioner of Social Services, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 234
Pages: 5–5

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the McM. Children, Alleged to be Neglected. Herman McM., Appellant; Commissioner of Social Services, Respondent.
[650 NYS2d 552]

Opinion:
—Orders of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Marjory Fields, J.), entered April 13, 1995, placing the five subject children with the Commissioner of Social Services for 12 months, following a fact-finding determination that respondent had neglected the children, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
A preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that respondent, presently incarcerated for sexual and physical abuse of the children, had abandoned the children under Social Services Law § 384-b (5) by failing to write to them for over a year although able to do so, and thereby had neglected them under Family Court Act § 1012 (f) (ii) (see, Matter of Shaniqua L., 193 AD2d 370). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Ellerin, Nardelli and Mazzarelli, JJ.