Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 21, 2015, 2014-08806 (Matter of Noah E. P. (Wesley P.))

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (David Freundlich, J.), dated September 4, 2014. The order granted the motion of the Suffolk County Department of Social Services for summary judgment on its petition to terminate the father’s parental rights of the subject child, on the basis that the father severely abused the child, and transferred the guardianship and custody of the