ALBANY – A county failed to show that the children of a convicted sex offender were neglected simply because the man was allowed to live in the family home after his release from incarceration, the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
The Court held in Matter of Afton C., 69, that the Dutchess County Department of Social Services had to do more than cite the father’s status as an “untreated” Level III sex offender to prove neglect.
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