McClanahan v. Washington County Department of Social Services

Dissenting Opinion by BATTAGLIA, J., which McDonald, j., joins.

I respectfully dissent.

The Majority applies the holding of Taylor v. Harford Cnty. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 384 Md. 213, 862 A.2d 1026 (2004), a case involving the physical abuse of a child, to vacate all of the determinations of the administrative law judge (“ALJ”), the Circuit Court, and the Court of Special Appeals and rule that a mother cannot be found to have committed indicated child abuse, mental injury, when she subjected her daughter to repeated invasive sexual examinations as well as investigations by the Washington County…