Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 8, 2002 (In re Thomas M.)

Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Stewart Weinstein, J.), entered on or about August 13, 1996, which, to the extent appealed from, upon a fact-finding determination that the subject child had been permanently neglected, terminated respondent mother’s parental rights to the child and transferred custody and guardianship of the child to the Commissioner of Social Services for the