Admin. for Children's Servs. v. Abraham A.B. (In re Isser B.)

Full title: In the Matter of Isser B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's…

Court: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

Date published: Nov 12, 2014

2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 7657 (N.Y. App. Div. 2014)

Opinion

2013-00732 2013-00733

11-12-2014

In the Matter of Isser B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; v. Abraham A.B. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Tzvi D. B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; v. Abraham A.B. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Doba B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; v. Abraham A.B. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 3) In the Matter of Chaya M. B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; v. Abraham A.B. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 4)

Rhonda R. Weir, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant. Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Edward F. X. Hart and Julie Steiner of counsel), for petitioner-respondent. Seymour W. James, Jr., New York, N.Y. (Tamara A. Steckler and Patricia Colella of counsel), attorney for the children Isser B., Doba B., and Chaya M. B. Serena Rosario, Brooklyn, N.Y., attorney for the child Tzvi D. B.

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX

BETSY BARROS, JJ. (Docket Nos. N-38083-10, N-38084-10, N-38085-10, N-38086-10)

Rhonda R. Weir, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.

Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Edward F. X. Hart and Julie Steiner of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Seymour W. James, Jr., New York, N.Y. (Tamara A. Steckler and Patricia Colella of counsel), attorney for the children Isser B., Doba B., and Chaya M. B.

Serena Rosario, Brooklyn, N.Y., attorney for the child Tzvi D. B.

DECISION & ORDER

In four related child protective proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of (1) an order of Family Court, Kings County (Danoff, J.), dated December 12, 2012, as, after a fact-finding hearing in Proceeding Nos. 1 and 2, found that he derivatively abused the child Tzvi D. B., and derivatively neglected the child Isser B., and (2) an order of the same court, also dated December 12, 2012, as, after a fact-finding hearing in Proceeding Nos. 3 and 4, found that he sexually abused the child Chaya M. B. and derivatively neglected the child Doba B.

ORDERED that the orders are affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The Family Court's finding that the appellant sexually abused his daughter Chaya M. B. was supported by a preponderance of the evidence (see Family Ct Act §§ 1012[e][iii]; 1046 [b][i]; Penal Law § 130.00[3]; Matter of Joshua P. [David J.], 111 AD3d 836). Contrary to the appellant's contention, under the facts of this case, the Family Court properly inferred the element of intent to obtain sexual gratification (see Matter of Raymond M., 13 AD3d 377, 378; cf. Matter of Jelani B., 54 AD3d 1032, 1033).

The appellant's remaining contentions are without merit.

RIVERA, J.P., LEVENTHAL, HINDS-RADIX and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court