MATTER OF DESTINY R.


266 A.D.2d 101 (1999)

698 N.Y.S.2d 470

In the Matter of DESTINY R., a Child Alleged to be Abused and/or Neglected. NOEMI R., Appellant; COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Respondent.

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

Decided November 18, 1999.


Were we to reach the merits, we would affirm. Although respondent has participated in parenting skills programs and has been in therapy, her unexplained, continued failure to acknowledge and discuss the circumstances of the subject child's serious injury, skull fractures, leaves significant question as to her capacity for parenting and was properly found by Family Court to preclude the grant of respondent's application for return of the subject child (see, Matter of Nathaniel...

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