The court properly denied appellant's motion to suppress his statements. The police fully complied with the parental notification provision of Family Court Act § 305.2(3). The fact that a parent who appears at a juvenile's interrogation is also the parent of the complainant is not disqualifying, but is simply a factor to be considered in evaluating the voluntariness of the statement (Matter of James OO.,
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