Citation Numbers: 23 A.D.3d 209, 808 N.Y.S.2d 2
Filed Date: 11/10/2005
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/1/2024
Orders of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Sara E Schechter, J.), entered on or about February 27, 2003, which, upon a fact-finding determination of neglect, awarded custody of the subject children to their father, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The finding of neglect is supported by a preponderance of the evidence showing that on two occasions, while she was appearing in Family Court, appellant exposed her children to imminent danger of harm (see Nicholson v Scoppetta, 3 NY3d 357 [2004]; Family Ct Act § 1012 [f]). On one occasion, when questioned by a court officer as to why she would not place her two-year-old child in the court’s nursery, appellant screamed at her child and
The evidence at the dispositional hearing supported the court’s finding that the best interests of the children were met by awarding custody to their father, who was providing care for the children and attending to their special needs.
We have considered and rejected appellant’s remaining contentions. Concur—Buckley, P.J., Tom, Andrias, Sullivan and Malone, JJ.