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A SHOWING THAT MOTHER WAS ABUSED AND THE CHILD WITNESSED THE ABUSE IS NOT LEGALLY SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT MOTHER NEGLECTED THE CHILD (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Family Court, determined the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) did not present legally sufficient evidence of mother's neglect. The basis of the neglect allegation was mother's allowing the children to be exposed to domestic violence at the hands of her paramour:

In order to establish a prima facie case of neglect, DCFS was required, insofar as relevant here, to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the subject children's “physical, mental or emotional condition has been impaired or is in imminent danger of becoming impaired as a result of the failure of [their] parent or other person legally responsible for [their] care to exercise a minimum degree of care” … . In the petition, DCFS alleged that the mother neglected the subject children by exposing them to domestic violence, i.e., by allowing her paramour into her house on several occasions in the presence of the subject children despite his history of violent actions toward her, during which she was again subjected to domestic violence. It is well settled that, in certain situations, “[t]he exposure of the child to domestic violence between the parents may form the basis for a finding of neglect”… . To establish neglect, however, “there must be proof of actual (or imminent danger of) physical, emotional or mental impairment to the child' . . . In order for danger to be imminent,' it must be near or impending, not merely possible' . . . Further, there must be a causal connection between the basis for the neglect petition and the circumstances that allegedly produce the . . . imminent danger of impairment' ” … . Thus, “[a] neglect determination may not be premised solely on a finding of domestic violence without any evidence that the physical, mental or emotional condition of the child was impaired or was in imminent danger of becoming impaired”… . “When the sole allegation' is that the mother has been abused and the child has witnessed the abuse, such a showing has not been made” … . Matter of Nevin H. (Stephanie H.), 2018 NY Slip Op 05891, Fourth Dept 8-22-18

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