IN RE: WHITNEY B. (Anonymous). (2008)

In two related child protective proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the father appeals from an order of commitment of the Family Court, Queens County (Richardson-Mendelson, J.), dated May 7, 2007, which, after a hearing, in effect, determined that he had willfully violated the terms of a temporary order of protection of the same court dated March 8, 2007, and committed him to the New York City Department of Corrections for a term of imprisonment not to exceed six months.

ORDERED that the appeal from so much of the order of commitment as committed the father to the New York City Department of Corrections for a term of imprisonment not to exceed six months is dismissed as academic, as the period of imprisonment has expired (see Matter of Greene v. Holmes, 31 A.D.3d 760, 820 N.Y.S.2d 597;  Matter of Bradley v. Beneduce, 24 A.D.3d 546, 808 N.Y.S.2d 257);  and it is further,

ORDERED that the order of commitment is affirmed insofar as reviewed, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner established by a fair preponderance of the evidence that the father willfully and without just cause violated the temporary order of protection.   The evidence at the hearing established that, after having been apprised by the Family Court that the temporary order of protection, among other things, required that he have no unsupervised contact with the children, the father approached one child after school, put her into a car against her will, and drove around with her for several hours.   Accordingly, the Family Court properly determined that the father violated the temporary order of protection (see Family Ct. Act § 1072;  Matter of Jazmone S., 48 A.D.3d 823, 851 N.Y.S.2d 369;  Matter of Christine G., 36 A.D.3d 615, 828 N.Y.S.2d 164;  Matter of Department of Social Servs. [Mario Q.], 228 A.D.2d 677, 678, 644 N.Y.S.2d 990).