Opinion
Nos. 2009-03437 (Docket No. N-01576-07).
March 2, 2010.
In a child protective proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of fact-finding of the Family Court, Kings County (Ruiz, J.), dated March 3, 2009, as, after a fact-finding hearing, found that he had sexually abused the subject child.
O'keke Associates, P.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Patrick O'keke of counsel), for appellant.
Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Pamela Seider Dolgow and Suzanne K. Colt of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.
Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Tamara A. Steckler and Marcia Egger of counsel), attorney for the child.
Before: Dillon, J.P., Miller, Eng and Roman, JJ., concur.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
Based upon our review of the record and deferring to the Family Court's resolution of questions of credibility ( see Matter of Grant W. [Raphael A.], 67 AD3d 922; Matter of Liza O., 47 AD3d 632), we conclude that the Family Court's determination that the father sexually abused the child is supported by a preponderance of the evidence ( see Family Ct Act § 1046 [b] [i]; Matter of Grant W. [Raphael A.], 67 AD3d 922). Contrary to the father's contention, the child's out-of-court statements were reliably corroborated by the father's admissions ( see Family Ct Act § 1046 [a] [vi]; Matter of Nicole V., 71 NY2d 112; Matter of Erich J., 22 AD3d 849, 850; Matter of James A., 217 AD2d 961; Matter of Margaret W., 83 AD2d 557).