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THE CHILDREN’S HEARSAY EVIDENCE AND KNOWLEDGE FATHER LEGALLY POSSESSED A FIREARM DID NOT SUPPORT THE NEGLECT FINDING; THE EVIDENTIARY CRITERIA FOR NEGLECT ARE EXPLAINED IN DETAIL (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Family Court, determined the hearsay statements of the children and the children’s knowledge father legally possessed a firearm were not sufficient to support the neglect finding against father. The proof requirements for neglect and the proper role of hearsay is discussed in some depth:

… [T]he hearsay evidence presented by the petitioner at the fact-finding hearing was insufficient to permit a finding of neglect (see Family Ct Act § 1046[a][vi] …). The hearsay statement of one child that she witnessed the father “attacking her mother in the bedroom” failed to provide any detail as to the alleged domestic violence and was not corroborated by any other evidence of domestic violence in the record (see Family Ct Act § 1046[a][vi] …). The hearsay statements of the children describing an incident in which the father yelled outside the children’s home and “reached for” or “grabbed at” one of the children on their way inside, which the children described as “uncomfortable,” “weird,” and “confus[ing],” causing one of them to be “a little anxious” and the other to “start[ ] to cry,” without more, was insufficient to establish that the children’s physical, mental, or emotional condition was impaired or in imminent danger of becoming impaired … . Furthermore, the children’s knowledge that the father legally possessed a firearm in another state was insufficient to establish that the children’s physical, mental, or emotional condition was impaired or in imminent danger of becoming impaired where there was no evidence that the father had threatened anyone with his firearm or otherwise connecting the firearm to the alleged incidents of neglect … . Matter of Kashai E. (Kashif R.E.), 2023 NY Slip Op 03784, Second Dept 7-17-23

Practice Point: Here the children’s hearsay evidence did not support the neglect finding against father. The proper use of hearsay in a neglect proceeding is clearly explained in some depth.

 

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