In re Marissa RR.

—Crew III, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Schoharie County (Czajka, J.), entered July 15, 1998, which, inter alia, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, to adjudicate Marissa RR. an abused child.

In April 1998, petitioner commenced this proceeding seeking a determination that respondent had abused his daughter, Marissa RR. (born- in 1994). A fact-finding hearing was held wherein petitioner offered into evidence a certificate of respondent’s conviction of, inter alia, attempted murder, together with the transcript of the plea…