In Re N'Zion H. Westchester County Department of Social Services

Appeal by the mother from an order of fact-finding of the Family Court, Westchester County (Janet C. Malone, J.), entered August 20, 2014. The order, after a fact-finding hearing, found that the mother neglected the subject child.

Ordered that the order of fact-finding is reversed, on the facts, without costs or disbursements, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed.

The Westchester County Department of Social Services (hereinafter DSS) filed a child neglect petition after the mother was hospitalized for allegedly taking a quantity of baby aspirin. It is undisputed that the…