MATTER OF SAMIYAH H.

Docket Nos. NN17209/19, NN-17210/19. Appeal No. 12080-12081. Case Nos. 2020-00162, 2020-00093.

187 A.D.3d 540 (2020)

133 N.Y.S.3d 19

2020 NY Slip Op 05812

In the Matter of Samiyah H. and Another, Children Alleged to be Neglected. Sammie H. et al., Appellants; Administration for Children's Services, Respondent.

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

Decided October 15, 2020.


The court correctly found that petitioner agency proved derivative neglect of the subject children by a preponderance of the admissible evidence showing that respondents had neglected the children's older siblings (see Family Ct Act §§ 1012 [f]; 1046[a][i]; [b]). The records concerning the older siblings were contained in the Connecticut Department of Children and Families' (DCF) file of a 2014 proceeding in Connecticut, which petitioner introduced into evidence...

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