OPINION OF THE COURT
PETERS, J.
On this appeal, we are compelled to determine whether testimony taken from a child during the fact-finding stage of a Family Ct Act article 10 proceeding, outside the presence of the respondent but with counsel present and permitted to cross-examine the child, is entitled to the same protections of confidentiality afforded to Lincoln testimony in a Family Ct Act article 6 proceeding. We conclude that it is not.
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