In re Chaka F.

—Orders of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Mary Bednar, J.), entered July 15,1994, terminating respondent’s parental rights and awarding guardianship and custody of the subject children to the Commissioner of Social Services and petitioner agency for the purposes of adoption, following a fact-finding determination that respondent had abandoned the children, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Clear and convincing evidence that respondent failed to visit or communicate with her children or contact the subject agency for the six-month period immediately preceding the filing of the…