In re Otis A.

The surprising aspect of this decision holding in contempt the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York — and that is the decision of the court — is not that this action, which has been so richly earned, is being taken, but that such remarkable judicial *110restraint has been shown by the court in not doing so until now. Perhaps this restraint, which is consonant with a Judge’s duty to take every measure possible, short of total surrender of respect for the court itself, has been exercised with the recognition that agencies charged by law with responsiveness to the needs of those…