The issue here involves the ruling of the Family Court that testimony given by an interpreter for the deaf, concerning a statement of a six-year-old deaf child, should not be admitted in evidence at the hearing (cf. Family Ct Act, § 1046, subd [a], par [vi]). The court found that the statement was given by the child to the interpreter after the filing of the petition. The best interests of the child are far more important than some technical objection which, on this...
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