In re Shavon C.

—Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Marjory Fields, J.), entered on or about July 31, 1998, terminating respondent-appellant’s parental rights to the subject child upon a finding of abandonment, and committing the child’s guardianship and custody to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services for the purposes of adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Clear and convincing evidence that respondent had no contact with the child or the agency during the six months preceding the filing of the petition raised a presumption of abandonment that respondent failed to…