Opinion
November 28, 1994
Appeal from the Family Court, Queens County (Sparrow, J.).
Ordered that the order is modified, by deleting the provision referring to Ricky R. as a neglected child, and substituting therefor a provision dismissing that portion of the petition; as so modified, the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,
Ordered that the fact-finding order is modified accordingly.
The evidence adduced at the fact-finding hearing established by a preponderance of the evidence that Amanda R. was an abused child (see, Family Ct Act § 1012 [e] [iii]; § 1046 [a] [ii]; Matter of Lauren B., 200 A.D.2d 740). We agree, however, with appellant and with the Law Guardian for each of the children that, under the circumstances of this case, there was no basis for a finding of derivative neglect with respect to the appellant's son Ricky R. Evidence of a single incident of abuse of one-month old Amanda, standing alone, did not make out a prima facie case of derivative neglect against the appellant's 10-year old son Ricky R. (see, Matter of Dutchess County Dept. of Social Servs. v. Douglas E., 191 A.D.2d 694). Bracken, J.P., Lawrence, Friedmann and Goldstein, JJ., concur.