Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered; and it is further,
Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed as academic.
At trial, the prosecutor, over the defendant's objection, elicited hearsay testimony from Dr. Cicatello, one of the attending physicians who treated the child, that the child's account of what had happened was "distinctly different" from the account given by the defendant, who was the child's stepmother...
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