In re William W.

— Order unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and matter remitted to Erie County Family Court for further proceedings, in accordance with the following memorandum: Respondent father was charged with abusing his four-year-old son by placing a rope around his left wrist and dragging the child, causing bleeding and removal of skin from the wrist, and with causing serious burns to the child’s hand and wrist by placing the child’s left arm into a lit oven. The court dismissed the petition after a hearing. This was error. At the time he was taken into protective custody, the child gave…