Matter of Mason H. (Joseph H.)

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Connerton, J.), entered August 25, 2016, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b, to adjudicate the subject child to be abandoned by respondent, and terminated respondent’s parental rights.

In July 2015, Mason H. (born in 2012) was temporarily removed from the home of his mother and her then boyfriend and placed with the boyfriend’s aunt on consent. Upon a finding of neglect against the mother in October 2015, the child’s placement with the aunt was continued. Respondent, the…