In re Hamo D.

Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Myrna Martinez-Perez, J.), entered on or about February 1, 20Q2, terminating respondent’s parental rights to the subject child and committing the child’s guardianship and custody to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services for the purposes of adoption, upon a finding of permanent neglect, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The agency was not required to show diligent efforts to strengthen the parental relationship because of respondent’s failure for a near continuous period of 21 months to keep it apprised of her whereabouts…