David N. v. St. Mary's County Department of Social Services

EYLER, DEBORAH S., J.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether a local department of social services for a Maryland county can investigate a report of suspected child abuse or neglect when the abuse or neglect is alleged to have happened in Maryland but the child victim lives out of state. David N., the appellant, maintains that the answer to that question is no, and that the St. Mary’s County Department of Social Services (“the Department”), the appellee, had no power to investigate the report of suspected child sexual abuse made against him in this case. For that same reason, he argues, the…