MATTER OF KING D.C.

2022-02106, 2022-02109, 2022-02110, 2022-02111. Docket Nos. B-3843-20, B-3849-20, B-3851-20, B-3852-20.

216 A.D.3d 1157 (2023)

188 N.Y.S.3d 210

2023 NY Slip Op 02873

In the Matter of King D.C. Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Abigail R., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 1.). In the Matter of Princedevin Y.R. Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Abigail R., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 2.). In the Matter of Tahiem N.G. Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Abigail R., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 3.). In the Matter of Massiah M.S. Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Abigail R., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 4.).

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided May 31, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Salvatore C. Adamo , Patchogue, NY, for appellant.

Dennis M. Cohen , County Attorney, Central Islip, NY ( Karin A. Bohrer of counsel), for respondent.

Laurette D. Mulry , Central Islip, NY ( John B. Belmonte of counsel), attorney for the children.

Dillon, J.P., Brathwaite Nelson, Miller and Maltese, JJ., concur.


In related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b, the mother appeals from four orders of fact-finding and disposition of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Matthew Hughes, J.) (one as to each child), all dated February 9, 2022. The orders of fact-finding and disposition, after a fact-finding hearing, and upon the mother's failure to appear at the fact-finding hearing and her counsel's election, in effect, to remain mute, found that the mother abandoned the...

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