In re Jamal B.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Pines, J.), entered October 3, 2011, which granted *1615petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b, to adjudicate the subject children to be abandoned, and terminated respondent’s parental rights.

Respondent is the father of four children (born in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008). The three older children were removed from their parents’ custody and placed in a foster home in August 2007, and the youngest child was removed in March 2009. Petitioner alleged in this proceeding that respondent abandoned the…