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J. H. v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE

No. 2430 C.D. 1981.

73 Pa.Commw. 369 (1983)

J.H., Petitioner v. Department of Public Welfare, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

April 11, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Ehrlich, for petitioner.

Mary Frances Grabowski, Assistant Counsel, for respondent.

Alfred W. Crump, Jr., for Berks County Children and Youth Services.

Robert J. Manara, Guardian Ad Litem on behalf of J.S.

Submitted on briefs February 2, 1983, to President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges MacPHAIL and DOYLE, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE CRUMLISH, JR., April 11, 1983:

J.H. appeals from a Department of Public Welfare (DPW) order which adopted the recommendation of the Hearing Officer denying his request to expunge his child abuse record. We affirm.

On January 31, 1980, J.H. attempted to administer corporal punishment to his stepson, J.S., by striking him across the buttocks with an oak stick. The child, however, spun around and ducked and the blow struck him on the...

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