Legal Opinion
In re Giannis F.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 15, 2012PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Carol R. Sherman, J.), entered on or about October 14, 2011, which granted the application of the attorney for the child alleged to have been abused to permit the child to testify at the fact-finding hearing through two-way closed circuit television, subject to contemporaneous cross-examination by the parties, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly balanced respondent mother’s due process rights with the emotional well-being of the child in permitting the child to testify to years of sexual abuse by her stepbrother, which the mother did not…
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