Philadelphia County Department of Human Services v. Commonwealth

CRAIG, President Judge.

The Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) appeals a decision of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW), expunging an indicated report of child abuse.

The pertinent facts as found by the DPW hearing officer are as follows. R.C. (W for wife) and B.C. (H for husband), are, respectively, the mother and father of U.C. (C for child), who was born on October 5, 1983 in India. W and C remained in India before joining H in the United States. H and W were husband and wife at the time of C’s birth, but later separated. One month before C turned two-years old,…