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Child’s Out-of-Court Statements Not Sufficiently Corroborated for Admission Into Evidence

The Second Department determined Family Court properly refused to admit evidence of the child’s out-of-court statements in an abuse and neglect proceeding because the statements were not corroborated:

A child’s prior out-of-court statements may provide the basis for a finding of abuse or neglect, provided that these hearsay statements are corroborated so as to ensure their reliability … . Any other evidence tending to support the reliability of the child’s previous statements shall be sufficient corroboration (see Family Ct Act § 1046[a][vi]…). There is a threshold of reliability that the evidence must meet … . The Family Court has considerable discretion to decide whether the child’s out-of-court statements describing incidents of abuse or neglect have, in fact, been reliably corroborated … . Here, the Family Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in determining that the statements of the subject child Anthony W. were insufficient to corroborate the statements of the subject child Sally W. as to the alleged sexual abuse perpetrated upon her. Matter of Gerald W. (Anne R.), 2015 NY Slip Op 05198, 2nd Dept 6-17-15

 

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