Order reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, without costs or disbursements, fact-finding order vacated, and petition dismissed.
As the Corporation Counsel concedes, the allocution conducted at the fact-finding hearing on which the challenged order was based was inadequate because the Family Court failed to comprehensively apprise the appellant of her various constitutional and statutory rights or of the consequences of a waiver...
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