Laura I.M. v. Hillside Children's Center

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered October 20, 2006, which, to the extent appealed from, granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment as to liability for negligent failure to exercise professional judgment, and denied defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

For purposes of this appeal, it is undisputed that the two infant plaintiffs were sexually abused by Sergey Reznikov, a young man who sometimes served as their babysitter, at various points in time during 1997 and 1998. In…