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254 A.D.2d 513 (1998)

678 N.Y.S.2d 172

In the Matter of Shaiane W., a Child Alleged to be Abandoned. Tompkins County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Michael X., Appellant

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

October 1, 1998

Peters, J.

Respondent is the father of Shaiane W., born in 1995. The child's mother, who suffers from a debilitating mental illness, was unable to care for the child and so, at the age of six months, she was removed from her mother's custody and placed in foster care by petitioner. At that time, respondent, who was never married to the child's mother, was a prison inmate. Following his release from prison in...

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