In re Diana A.

The primary procedural issue raised by respondent in this proceeding is whether the Judge should have granted the motion made at its inception that she disqualify and recuse herself from conducting it. The respondent in the instant parental neglect proceeding under the Family Court Act is a 13-year-old mother; the basis for her motion for recusation was that the Judge had acquired an impression of the facts during a proceeding against respondent’s mother (the grandmother of the child involved in the instant case), and because of such impression had directed the filing of the instant neglect…