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DESPITE THE ORDER OF PROTECTION EXCLUDING RESPONDENT FROM THE HOME, THE PETITIONER PRESENTED SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE RESPONDENT WAS A PERSON LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHILD; PEITIONER DEMONSTRATED RESPONDENT HAD NEGLECTED THE CHILD BY COMMITTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE CHILD’S PRESENCE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Family Court, determined the evidence demonstrated respondent was a person legally responsible (PLR) for the child and respondent neglected the child by committing domestic violence in the child’s presence:

Petitioner demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that respondent was a person legally responsible (PLR) for the subject child, as well as for the child’s three older siblings. Respondent and the children’s mother were in a romantic relationship and lived together before the child was born, and they both represented to caseworkers that respondent was the child’s biological father. There is evidence that, although he was excluded from the home because of an order of protection against him, respondent maintained communication with the mother and slept at the home at least on occasion, sharing the mother’s bed. Respondent failed to appear or testify to dispute the evidence that he was the child’s biological father or a PLR for him … . The fact that respondent was excluded from the household before the child’s birth as a result of having committed acts of excessive corporal punishment against the child’s eldest sibling does not outweigh the evidence that demonstrates that he is a PLR for the child … . The finding that respondent is a PLR for the child is further supported by his failure to appear in court, “allowing the court to draw a negative inference against him” … . Matter of Tristian B. (Winston B.), 2022 NY Slip Op 00498, First Dept 1-27-22

 

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