[U] In Re Commitment Of Guardianship And Custody Of G.B‪.‬

In February 2004, the Monroe County Department of Human and Health Services (the Department) filed a petition pursuant to Social Services Law, § 384-b, for termination of respondent Ms. J.' parental rights. The Department alleges that respondent mother had permanently neglected her two children, G.B. (a son, born in1992) and S.M. (a daughter, born in 2002). Respondent mother consented to a finding of permanent neglect. A lengthy hearing regarding disposition was required because the mother wants her two children to be raised by willing relatives, while the Department wants S.M. to be adopted by her foster parents and was looking for therapeutic foster parents for G.B., who is currently institutionalized. The petitions for extensions in the neglect cases involving both children and their mother were carried with the permanent neglect/termination of parental rights case.