Opinion
2013-00732, 2013-00733 (Docket Nos. N-38083-10, N-38084-10, N-38085-10, N-38086-10)
11-12-2014
In the Matter of ISSER B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; 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; 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; 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; 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.
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, and BETSY BARROS, JJ.
Opinion 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 A.D.3d 836, 975 N.Y.S.2d 440 ). 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 A.D.3d 377, 378, 786 N.Y.S.2d 94 ; cf. Matter of Jelani B., 54 A.D.3d 1032, 1033, 865 N.Y.S.2d 114 ).
The appellant's remaining contentions are without merit.