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Child’s Out-of Court Statements Sufficiently Corroborated

In affirming Family Court, the Second Department determined the child’s out-of-court statements were sufficiently corroborated:

At a fact-finding hearing in a child protective proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the petitioner has the burden of establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the subject child has been abused or neglected (see Family Ct Act § 1046[b][i]). A child’s out-of-court statements may form the basis for a finding of abuse or neglect if they are sufficiently corroborated by other evidence tending to support their reliability…. The Family Court has considerable discretion in deciding whether a child’s out-of-court statements describing incidents of abuse or neglect have been reliably corroborated ….  Contrary to the appellant’s contention, the Family Court’s determination that he sexually abused the subject child is supported by a preponderance of the evidence. The subject child’s out-of-court statement regarding the acts of sexual abuse upon her was corroborated by an expert in clinical and forensic psychology, with a specialization in child abuse, who evaluated the subject child and concluded that she exhibited behavior indicative of sexual abuse… .  Matter of Emani W, 2013 NY Slip Op 04346, 2nd Dept, 6-12-13

 

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