The finding of abandonment was supported by evidence that respondent, while incarcerated in Jamaica, WI, failed to communicate with the child or the agency for a period of seven months immediately preceding the filing of the petition, although not prevented or discouraged from doing so by the agency and allowed by the prison facilities to write letters and for a six-week period also to make telephone calls (see, Social Services Law § 384-b [5] [a]; Matter of...
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