Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 3, 1996 (In re the M. Children)

—Appeals from order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Mary Bednar, J.), entered January 26, 1995, which placed the subject children with petitioner Commissioner of Social Services for 12 months, following a fact-finding determination that respondent father abused three of the children, that respondent mother knew or should have known of the abuse and failed to protect the children,