Legal Opinion
R. v. Com., Dept. of Public Welfare
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 4, 1994No. 22 E.D. Appeal Docket 1992PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
In this appeal, Appellant R. raises several constitutional challenges to the procedures that were followed when he was denied his request to expunge his record of a report indicating that there was substantial evidence showing that he committed child abuse. For the reasons that follow, we reject his constitutional claims.
This case arose out of the following set of facts. In January 1987, the Montgomery County Office of Children and Youth received a report of suspected child abuse alleging that R. sexually abused his daughter. A caseworker investigated the report by…
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