ALBANY — Jayson White, the father of a Knox boy, Kenneth White, who was killed in December, acknowledged a finding of neglect against him in Albany County Family Court on May 18, according to Mary Rozak, spokeswoman for the county executive’s office.

The neglect and abuse petition was brought by the county’s Department for Children, Youth and Families, which filed a similar one against Brenda VanAlstyne, the boy’s aunt, and Christine White, his mother.

Through family court, attorneys revealed in recent months that Jayson White has been investigated previously by Child Protective Services in Montgomery and Berkshire counties.

Family Court Judge Gerard Maney on May 18 ordered Jayson White, who lives in western Massachusetts, to be allowed supervised visits with his two daughters, Cheyanne and Christine, Rozak said.

He is next due in court for a report on his progress on Aug. 5.

During the dispositional hearing on the petition against Brenda VanAlstyne, a social worker testified that the county’s plan is still to ultimately reunite the two girls with their biological parents. They are now in a foster home.

At ages 4 and 5, the two sisters lived in a trailer on Thacher Park Road with their 5-year-old brother, Kenneth White; Brenda VanAlstyne; their cousin, Tiffany VanAlstyne; Kenneth VanAlstyne, the brother of Brenda VanAlstyne’s stepfather; and an 18-year-old man whom Brenda VanAlstyne had taken in.

Tiffany VanAlstyne, Brenda VanAlstyne’s daughter, was arrested for second-degree murder after Kenneth’s body was found covered in snow across the street from their trailer in December.