In re Ray A. M.

"Under the particular facts and the totality of circumstances” (Matter of Klug, 32 AD2d 915, 916), we hold that the infant herein is a permanently neglected child, as defined in section 611 of the Family Court Act, and that the child’s moral and temporal interests require that the custody of the respondent, her natural mother, be terminated permanently (Family Ct. Act, § 614, subd 1, par [e]).

The permanent neglect petition was filed by the petitioner Spence-Chapin Adoption Service on December 3, 1971. At that time the child was four years old; for the preceding two and a-half years she had…