In re Dora F.

Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Harold Lynch, J.), entered April 3, 1996, which, after a fact-finding hearing, dismissed the petition alleging sexual abuse of the subject child by the respondent father for failure of proof, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, the petition reinstated, a finding of sexual abuse entered, and the matter remanded for further proceedings, including a dispositional hearing.

At the time in question, Dora F. was seven years old and lived with her godmother. This proceeding was commenced on April 18, 1995 by the filing of an abuse petition…