MATTER OF JANIQUE Y.


256 A.D.2d 1053 (1998)

682 N.Y.S.2d 706

In the Matter of JANIQUE Y. and Others, Children Alleged to be Abused and/or Neglected. ALBANY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Appellant; CHARLOTTE Z., Respondent.

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

Decided December 30, 1998.


Graffeo, J.

Respondent is the mother of three children born in 1991, 1992 and 1993. In the early evening of September 27, 1997 while respondent was asleep, her children began playing with a cigarette lighter which had been left on a table. The youngest child's shirt caught fire and when the other children could not extinguish it, they went downstairs for help from their grandmother who extinguished the fire. During the commotion, respondent awoke and called an ambulance...

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