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MATTER OF HECTOR, R.

299 A.D.2d 256 (2002)

750 N.Y.S.2d 589

In the Matter of HECTOR R., a Person Alleged to be a Juvenile Delinquent, Appellant.

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

Decided November 21, 2002.

The court properly permitted the eight-year-old victim to give sworn testimony since her responses established that, even if she did not understand the meaning of the particular word "oath," she sufficiently understood the difference between truth and falsity, the duty to tell the truth, the meaning of swearing to tell the truth, and the divine and secular consequences of lying (see People v Parks, 41 N.Y.2d 36, 45; People v Cordero...

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