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Matter of Brunello G

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jun 30, 1997
240 A.D.2d 744 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)

Opinion

June 30, 1997

Appeal from the Family Court, Queens County (De Phillips, J.).


Ordered that the order is modified by adding a provision thereto prohibiting the respondent mother from bathing, dressing, or undressing the child; as so modified, the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements, and the stay of enforcement of the order is vacated forthwith.

Upon our review of the hearing record, we concur in the Family Court's determination that the nearly ten-year-old subject child should be returned to the respondent parents. The petitioner failed to demonstrate that returning the child to his parents would present an imminent risk to the child's health ( see, Family Ct Act § 1028 [a]; Matter of Hiram V., 162 A.D.2d 453, 454) and the court's determination was not an improvident exercise of its discretion ( cf., Matter of Erick C., 220 A.D.2d 282, 283). However, in its oral decision following the hearing the Family Court determined that the child should not be bathed by the mother. This directive was omitted, however, from the court's written order, and we therefore modify the order so that it expressly contains such a provision. In order to render the court's precautionary measure complete, we have expanded it to include a prohibition against the mother's dressing or undressing the child.

Thompson, J.P., Joy, Friedmann and Krausman, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Matter of Brunello G

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jun 30, 1997
240 A.D.2d 744 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
Case details for

Matter of Brunello G

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of BRUNELLO G., a Child Alleged to be Abused and/or…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jun 30, 1997

Citations

240 A.D.2d 744 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
660 N.Y.S.2d 990

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