In re Melissa P.

—Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Harold Lynch, J.), entered on or about August 10, 1998, which dismissed the petition alleging sexual abuse of the subject child Melissa P. by respondent stepfather for failure of proof, unanimously reversed, on the facts, without costs, the petition reinstated, a finding of sexual abuse entered, and the matter remanded for a dispositional hearing before a different Judge.

A review of the record indicates that the court overlooked evidence in the record that is strongly corroborative of Melissa’s story (Matter of Dora F., 239 AD2d 228, 230, Iv denied 92 NY2d…