In re Xionia VV.

Appeal from an order of. the Family Court of Chemung County (Brockway, J.), entered February 1, 2010, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b, to adjudicate the subject child to be permanently neglected, and terminated respondent’s parental rights.

Respondent, the incarcerated father of a daughter born in 1996 (hereinafter the child), was imprisoned when the child was six months old and has remained in prison for most of her life, except for brief periods of release in 2001 and 2008. The child was removed from her mother’s care in 2001…