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MATTER OF ERICA C.

257 A.D.2d 445 (1999)

683 N.Y.S.2d 262

In the Matter of ERICA C., a Child Alleged to be Abandoned. CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SOCIETY, Respondent; MIGDALIA C., Appellant.

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

Decided January 14, 1999.

Appellant's one isolated attempt to contact her child within the relevant six-month period was, as Family Court held, insufficient to avoid a finding of abandonment (see, Matter of Oneka O., 249 A.D.2d 233). Nor was the extreme inadequacy of appellant's efforts at maintaining contact with her child mitigated either by appellant's illiteracy or her incarceration (see, Matter of Tikisha...

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