In re Jennifer L.
Opinion of the Court
—Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Mary Bednar, J.), entered September 22, 1994, which placed respondent-appellant’s children with the Commissioner of Social Services for up to 12 months, following a fact-finding determination that, inter alia, respondent father had sexually abused his daughter, Jennifer L., and that respondent-appellant knew or should have known of the abuse and failed to protect the child, and that, as a result, the other children were derivatively abused, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The seven-year-old victim’s consistent out-of-court statements that appellant knew that her father had forced her to masturbate him, had beaten the child when appellant discov
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