In re Joshua T.

—Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Gloria Sosa-Lintner, J.), entered on or about March 16, 1998, terminating respondent’s parental rights to the subject child upon a finding of neglect, and transferring the child’s guardianship and custody to the Commissioner of Social Services and petitioner agency for the purposes of adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In a Family Court proceeding which has inexplicitly taken nine years of an innocent young child’s life to bring to this point, the finding of permanent neglect is supported by clear and convincing evidence of…