In re Megan V. Suffolk County Department of Social Services

In two related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b, inter alia, to terminate parental rights on the ground of permanent neglect, the father appeals from an order of disposition of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Freundlich, J.), entered January 6, 2003, which, upon a fact-finding order of the same court entered November 13, 2002, made after a hearing, finding that he had permanently neglected the subject children, and, after a dispositional hearing, terminated his parental rights and transferred custody and guardianship of the children to the Suffolk County Department of…