Opinion
August 3, 1987
Appeal from the Family Court, Rockland County (Stanger, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The record indicates that at the time of the fact-finding and dispositional hearings, the respondent mother knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily entered her plea of admission to the allegations that she had permanently neglected her children contained in the petition filed against her by the DSS, thus satisfying the burden of proof necessary for the court's finding of permanent neglect (see, Family Ct Act § 622). Our review of the record in this case gives us no cause, moreover, to disagree with the Family Court's later determination, following a hearing, that the mother violated the terms and conditions of the suspended judgment that had been negotiated by the parties at the time of the mother's plea of admission (see, Family Ct Act § 633; 22 NYCRR 205.50).
The mother's further contention that the DSS failed to meet its obligation to use diligent efforts to encourage and strengthen the parental relationship during the pendency of the suspended judgment is without merit (cf., Matter of Julius P., 63 N.Y.2d 477; Matter of Anonymous [St. Christopher's Home], 40 N.Y.2d 96, 102-103). Mollen, P.J., Brown, Weinstein and Rubin, JJ., concur.