In re Noelle Denise P.

—Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Harold Lynch, J.), entered on or about December 2, 1997, insofar as appealed from, 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 purpose of adoption, following a fact-finding determination of abandonment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The finding of abandonment is supported by clear and convincing evidence that appellant failed to communicate with the child or petitioner agency for three and…