MATTER OF ZACHARIAH VV


262 A.D.2d 719 (1999)

691 N.Y.S.2d 631

In the Matter of ZACHARIAH VV. and Others, Children Alleged to be Abused and Neglected. TOMPKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent; RICKY VV., Appellant.

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

Decided June 10, 1999.


Mercure, J.

The amended petition in this proceeding, alleging (as relevant to this appeal) that respondent committed child abuse and neglect with respect to his adopted son, Zachariah VV. (hereinafter the child) (born in 1988), is primarily based upon the child's hearsay allegations that on more than one occasion respondent touched his penis and buttocks while he was in the bathtub and threatened him with harm if he told anyone of the touching. After a fact-finding...

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