Legal Opinion
In re Shawniece E.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 29, 1985PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The evidence presented at the hearing established that the injury sustained by the approximately nine-month-old infant Shawniece E. was medically inconsistent with the explanation of its cause given by the child’s mother to hospital personnel. We note, parenthetically, that although the evidence of the mother’s account of the injury contained in the hospital record technically may be hearsay, that evidence was properly admitted in these proceedings (see, Family Ct Act § 1046 [a] [iv]). As a result of this evidence, the Family Court erred in its finding that petitioner had failed to establish…
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