In re Jaquay O.
Opinion of the Court
Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Mary Bednar, J.), entered June 22, 1994, which placed respondent’s daughter with the Commissioner of Social Services for a period of 12 months and discharged her son to her for a period of 12 months with supervision by the Commissioner of Social Services, following a fact-finding determination that respondent abused her daughter and derivatively neglected her son, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Abuse of the daughter within the meaning of Family Court Act § 1012 (e) (iii) was made out by a preponderance of the credible evidence establishing that the daughter attempted to inform respondent that she was being sexually abused by her stepfather, that respondent ignored her, and that a reasonable and prudent parent would have inquired further of the daughter (see, Matter of Lauren B., 200 AD2d 740; Matter of Kather
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