New York Courts Rule that Repeated Domestic Violence in the Presence of Children Constitutes Neglect

The courts have ruled repeatedly that an act of domestic violence in the presence of within view of a child constitutes neglect. However, an isolated incident of domestic violence does not constitute a case of neglect. An incident is not isolated, though, when it is part of a pattern of conduct. A domestic violence incident is not isolated if it is done more than once.

In the situation at question, the mother’s testimony at a fact-finding hearing demonstrated that there was a clear pattern of conduct. So the father could not claim that it was an isolated incident. There was a pattern of conduct. The father appealed the finding from the fact-finding order of the Family Court of Queens County from August 3, 2009. In that hearing he was found to have neglected his children.

This court has reviewed all of the arguments. At special interest were the incidents of domestic violence outside the presence of the child which would have been insubstantial to the proof of neglect. The case in question was proved to be part of a pattern of conduct of domestic violence that is not isolate or perpetrated outside of the presence of the children in question.

The court in this case finds that the father’s contentions that the court needs to review these items at this point lacks merit. None of the father’s statements that are driven at reopening attention in regards to this case are substantial to encourage the court to order in any fashion other than to affirm the fact that he has neglected his children.

In many cases, it is difficult for a person to understand that incidents that occur within hearing of a child constitute neglect. A parent who threatens to kill the other parent is in effect neglecting the mental wellbeing of the child. Any act of outright domestic violence, hitting, slapping, pinching, verbal abuse, all constitute a criminal act. If they are done in front of a child then it constitutes neglect.

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