MATTER OF VERONA JONICE N.


177 A.D.2d 115 (1992)

In the Matter of the Guardianship and Custody of Verona Jonice N. and Another, Infants. Harlem Dowling Children's Services, Respondent; Laverne F., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

February 27, 1992


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dora M. Lassinger for appellant.

Philip D. Roach for respondent.

Lenore Gittis (Marcia Egger of counsel), Law Guardian.

MILONAS, J. P., ASCH and RUBIN, JJ., concur.


KASSAL, J.

Unlike the vast majority of parental termination cases that wend their way through our courts, the matter before us does not involve State intervention occasioned by drug addiction, alcoholism, physical or sexual abuse, or mental illness. Rather, the record establishes that, in November 1984, respondent mother, Laverne F., came to the attention of the authorities for having left her three children...

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