Opinion
11801 20067/18
07-09-2020
In re Jahsaraha A. S., A Child Under Eighteen Years of Age, etc., Sheldon S., Respondent-Appellant, Administration for Children's Services, et al., Petitioners-Respondents.
Steven P. Forbes, Jamaica, for appellant.
Steven P. Forbes, Jamaica, for appellant.
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Lynn M. Leopold, J.), entered on or about August 19, 2019, which granted petitioner Abbott House's motion for summary judgment and entered a finding of severe abuse against respondent-appellant Sheldon S., and terminated his parental rights to the subject child, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Application by the father's assigned counsel to withdraw as counsel is granted (see Anders v California, 386 US 738 [1967]; People v Saunders, 52 AD2d 833 [1st Dept 1976]). A review of the record demonstrates that there are no nonfrivolous issues which can be raised on this appeal. We agree with counsel that petitioner Abbott House demonstrated that respondent severely abused the child under Social Services Law § 384-b(8), as he was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree under Penal Law § 125.20, and the victim was the child's biological mother. Accordingly, Family Court properly determined that summary judgment was warranted (see SSL § 384- b[8][a][iii][A]; Matter of Alexander H. [Brenda P.-H.], 156 AD3d 561 [1st Dept 2017]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: JULY 9, 2020
CLERK