CHARLES COUNTY DEPT. OF SOC. SERV. v. VANN

No. 87, Sept. Term, 2003.

855 A.2d 313 (2004)

382 Md. 286

CHARLES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Charles VANN.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 29, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Barnes, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for petitioner.

James Brewster Hopewell (Ann M. Gaegler, on brief), Riverdale, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


RAKER, J.

In this case, we must decide whether the Court of Special Appeals, on judicial review of an administrative agency decision, erred when it held that a parent could not be responsible for indicated child abuse when, in the course of administering corporal punishment, the parent inadvertently injured his son because the child attempted to escape the punishment. The Charles County Department of Social Services found Charles Vann responsible for "indicated child...

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