In re Sara S.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Sullivan County Probate Court (Spanos, J.) granting the division for children and youth services’ (D.C.Y.S.) petition to terminate the parental rights of the defendant, Gwendolyn S., over her minor daughter, *591Sara S. The defendant contends on appeal that she did not abandon her daughter so as to justify termination of her parental rights. For the following reasons, we affirm.

In January 1983, in Hanover, Sara S. was born to the defendant, who at the time was a mental health patient at Mary Hitchcock Hospital. The child was placed in the temporary custody…