Order reversed, insofar as appealed from, on the law and the facts, without costs or disbursements, the child is adjudicated to be abandoned, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Kings County, for an immediate dispositional hearing.
On the record, abandonment was proven by clear and convincing evidence (Santosky v Kramer,
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