MATTER OF SYEDA A.

Docket No. NN-27543-46/17. Appeal No. 11879-11879A. Case No. 2019-05095.

186 A.D.3d 1145 (2020)

131 N.Y.S.3d 14

2020 NY Slip Op 05127

In the Matter of Syeda A. and Others, Children Alleged to be Neglected. Syed I., Appellant; Administration for Children's Services, Respondent.

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

Decided September 29, 2020.


A preponderance of the evidence supports the finding that respondent neglected his eldest daughter. The child's out-of-court statement that he punched her in the mouth with a closed fist was corroborated by the out-of-court statements of her two younger sisters submitted through the case-worker's fact-finding testimony, as well as the caseworker's testimony that she saw that the child had a minor laceration on the inside of her lip three days after the incident (see Matter...

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