In re Johnny O.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

In re Johnny O.

240 A.D.2d 179, 658 N.Y.S.2d 871, 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5992

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided June 5, 1997·Published·Cited by 3 cases

Opinion

Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Harold Lynch, J.), entered October 18, 1994, which placed respondent’s child with the Commissioner of Social Services for a period of up to 12 months upon a finding of abuse, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Sworn testimony of respondent’s children of frequent, almost daily, brutal beatings with a belt over a period of many years, which often left them bruised and in serious pain, was sufficient, standing alone, to prove abuse (Matter of R. Children, 216 AD2d 6; Matter of Venus S., 228 AD2d 314). Moreover, the testimony of the two children was so internally consistent as to be cross-corroborating, and was also corroborated by other witnesses, including family members who witnessed the beatings and a police officer who recovered handcuffs and instruments of abuse from the family home. Concur—Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Wallach, Nardelli and Rubin, JJ.

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Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Harold Lynch, J.), entered October 18, 1994, which placed respondent’s child with the Commissioner of Social Services for a period of up to 12 months upon a finding of abuse, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Sworn testimony of respondent’s children of frequent, almost daily, brutal beatings with a belt over a period of many years, which often left them bruised and in serious pain, was sufficient, standing alone, to prove abuse (Matter of R. Children, 216 AD2d 6; Matter of Venus S., 228 AD2d 314). Moreover, the testimony of the two children was so internally consistent as to be cross-corroborating, and was also corroborated by other witnesses, including family members who witnessed the beatings and a police officer who recovered handcuffs and instruments of abuse from the family home. Concur—Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Wallach, Nardelli and Rubin, JJ.

In re Johnny O., 240 A.D.2d 179, 658 N.Y.S.2d 871, 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5992 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1997).

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