In re the Adoption of Antonopulos
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Rose Antonopulos, from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Richmond, entered in the office of said Surrogate’s Court on the 14th day of August, 1915, and further entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 23d day of August, 1915, denying her motion to vacate an order of adoption.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
The mother who, in neglect of the parental duty to nurture her children, allows them to be improperly exposed or neglected, is subject to arrest and to be brought before a proper court or magistrate, who may commit the neglected children to an institution. (Penal Law, § 486, subd. 2.) In such case, the Legislature, subordinating a parent’s custody to the infant’s welfare, considers the “ child in need of the care and protection of the State.” (Laws of 1910, chap. 669, § 39.) The Children’s Court in Kings county had jurisdiction of such a proceeding. (Penal Law, § 486; Laws of 1910,…
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