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Sex Offender Status Not Enough to Support Neglect Finding

The Third Department reversed Supreme Court’s finding of neglect against respondent mother for leaving the children with the father unsupervised.  The father was a sex offender who failed to complete sex offender treatment and was previously found to have neglected the children by Supreme Court on that and other grounds.  In the prior appeal of the father’s neglect finding, the Third Department reversed Supreme Court and determined the father’s status as a sex offender was insufficient to support a finding he neglected the children and the other factors relied upon by the court lacked a sound and substantial basis in the record.  Because of those prior rulings, a finding of neglect against the mother based on leaving the children unsupervised with the father had to be reversed:

Inasmuch as the finding of neglect against respondent was premised on her permitting the father to have unsupervised contact with the children, it would be completely illogical to conclude that the subject children’s “physical, mental or emotional condition [had] been impaired or [was] in imminent danger of becoming impaired as a result of the failure of [respondent] . . . to exercise a minimum degree of care . . . in providing the child[ren] with proper supervision or guardianship” (Family Ct Act § 1012 [f] [i] [B]), when we previously determined that petitioner failed to prove that the father posed a risk of imminent danger to them (Matter of Hannah U. [Dennis U.], 97 AD3d at 909).  Thus, for the same reasons that led us to reverse the finding of neglect as to the father, we similarly conclude that petitioner failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence (see Family Ct Act § 1046 [b] [i]) that respondent neglected the subject children as alleged in the petition … .  Matter of Hannah U …, 514024, 3rd Dept 10-24-13

 

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