Legal Opinion
Haddock v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 29, 1990PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*480OPINION OF THE COURT
Kaye, J.
This appeal, centering on the rape of a nine-year-old child in a New York City playground by a Parks Department employee with a history of violent crime, poses a modern-day dilemma: assuring the public safety as well as the rehabilitation of former felons to constructive lives within society. In this case we conclude that the City was properly held liable for the child’s injuries, and therefore affirm the Appellate Division order, but on narrower grounds.
After school on April 8, 1975, plaintiff, her sister and four other children went to The Bronx playground near…
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