In re S

In respect to the reserved decision on respondents’ motion to dismiss the neglect petition at the end of the petitioner’s case affecting child Freddie, and after discharge from the petition of the other named children therein: This article 3 proceeding [Family Ct. Act] was initiated undoubtedly by a consensus of view, medical and social agency, that the child Freddie, only a month old, presented a case of a battered child syndrome. Proof of abuse by a parent or parents *162is difficult because such actions ordinarily occur in the privacy of the home without outside witnesses. Objective study of…