In re Chantel LL.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Madison County (O’Brien, III, *184J.), entered March 26, 1987, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, to adjudicate respondent’s child to be neglected.

In August 1986, petitioner commenced this neglect proceeding alleging that respondent’s "mentally abnormal behavior” prevented her from providing a minimum degree of care for her six-year-old daughter (see, Family Ct Act § 1012 [f]). At the ensuing fact-finding hearing, respondent acknowledged that she had been hospitalized on several recent…