In re Ateshia Diamond W.

—Order, Family Court, New York County (Bruce M. Kaplan, J.), entered June 10, 1992, which dismissed the petition to terminate the parental rights of respondent Rudolph C. upon the ground of abandonment, unanimously reversed, on the law, the petition reinstated, and the matter remanded to Family Court for further proceedings, without costs.

Respondent is Ateshia’s natural father. He has never had any contact with the child who was placed in foster care with petitioner The New York Foundling Hospital upon her release from the hospital eleven days after her birth on September 4, 1989. He and the…