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IN RE: BREEYANNA S., a Child Under the Age of Eighteen Years, etc., Sidney S., Respondent-Appellant, Necola F., Respondent, Administration for Children's Services, Petitioner-Respondent.
Appeal, insofar as taken from orders, Family Court, New York County (Sara P. Schechter, J.), entered on or about December 19, 2006 and July 17, 2007, which continued the subject child's placement with petitioner, approved a plan of reunification with the child's mother, and directed that respondent father's visitation remain supervised, unanimously dismissed as moot, and, insofar as taken from “all orders previously issued in this matter,” as limited by the briefs, unanimously dismissed as abandoned, without costs.
The appeal is moot insofar as taken from the December 19, 2006 and July 17, 2006 permanency hearing orders, such orders having been superseded by subsequent permanency hearing orders continuing the child's placement in foster care and discharging her to the mother on a trial basis (see 45 A.D.3d 498, 498, 847 N.Y.S.2d 515 [2007], lv. denied 10 N.Y.3d 706, 857 N.Y.S.2d 39, 886 N.E.2d 804 [2008] ). Contrary to respondent's argument, the appeal does not bring up for review the August 11, 2005 fact-finding determination of neglect. Respondent abandoned the issue of neglect by failing to raise it in his prior appeal from the June 27, 2006 order of disposition (45 A.D.3d 498, 847 N.Y.S.2d 515, supra ) (see Nam Tai Elecs., Inc. v. UBS PaineWebber Inc., 46 A.D.3d 486, 486, 850 N.Y.S.2d 11 [2007]; cf. Matter of Sephaniah A., 45 A.D.3d 386, 386, 845 N.Y.S.2d 301 [2007] ). Were we to consider the merits, we would find that a preponderance of the evidence shows that respondent put the child's physical, mental or emotional condition in imminent danger of becoming impaired by continually leaving the child in the mother's care when he went to work although aware of the mother's then long-standing alcohol abuse (Family Ct. Act § 1012[f][i] [B]; see Matter of Ashante M., 19 A.D.3d 249, 797 N.Y.S.2d 68 [2005] ).
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Decided: June 17, 2008
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
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