Laura Inger M. v. Hillside Children's Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*296Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered April 6, 2004, which, in an action for medical malpractice, granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Liberally construed, the complaint alleges that the two infant plaintiffs were sexually assaulted by their babysitter, who at the time was a resident of the institutional defendant, a treatment facility for emotionally disturbed children aged 10 to 18; that the individual defendants, mental health professionals employed by the facility, knew that the attacker had…
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