MATTER OF CHILDREN


172 A.D.2d 839 (1991)

In the Matter of The P. Children. Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York, Respondent; Sherry P., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 29, 1991


Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

It is undisputed that the petitioner made out a prima facie case of abuse by establishing that the appellant mother's two-year-old daughter, Janiqua had contracted gonorrhea. Once a prima facie case was established by the petitioner, the burden of going forward shifted to the parent or person responsible for Janiqua to offer a satisfactory explanation for...

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