IN RE: KAREEM C. (1998)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

IN RE: KAREEM C., et al., Children Under Eighteen Years of Age, etc., Gregory K., Respondent-Appellant, Commissioner of Social Services, Petitioner-Respondent.

Decided: September 29, 1998

Before MILONAS, J.P., ROSENBERGER, ELLERIN, WALLACH and WILLIAMS, JJ.

Diane Pazar, for Kareem C., et al. Steven A. Feldman, for Gregory K. Jane L. Gordon, for Commissioner of Social Services.

Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Stewart Weinstein, J.), entered on or about August 15, 1995, which, upon a finding of neglect, placed three of the subject children in the custody of petitioner Commissioner of Social Services for 12 months and the fourth child in the custody of his paternal grandmother for 12 months, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The finding of neglect is supported by a preponderance of evidence that respondent failed to avail himself of the drug rehabilitation and other programs to which he had been repeatedly referred by petitioner, and to provide adequate food, shelter and clothing for the children (Family Ct. Act §§ 1012 [f] [i], 1046[a][iii]; see, Matter of Selathia Nicole F., 243 A.D.2d 400, 663 N.Y.S.2d 183, lv. denied 91 N.Y.2d 806, 669 N.Y.S.2d 1, 691 N.E.2d 1027; Matter of Dante M., 87 N.Y.2d 73, 80, 637 N.Y.S.2d 666, 661 N.E.2d 138).

MEMORANDUM DECISION.

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