Ralph F. v. Marilyn F.

—Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Chemung County (O’Shea, J.), entered October 29, 1997, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, for, inter alia, correspondence with the parties’ children.

Petitioner is the father of three children who were adjudicated to be abused as the result of petitioner’s admission to various allegations of heinous sexual abuse. Petitioner also pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy in the first degree as a result of his abuse of his eldest child and was sentenced to a prison term of 3V2 to 10 years…