In re Emmanuel B.

—Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Stewart Weinstein, J.), entered on or about October 15, 1997, terminating respondent-appellant’s parental rights to the subject child and committing the child’s custody and guardianship to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services for the purposes of adoption, following a fact-finding determination of permanent neglect, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Clear and convincing evidence supports the findings that petitioner agency made diligent efforts to strengthen respondent’s parental relationship with the child, but that…