Croft v. Westmoreland County Children and Youth Services

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• holding that the child welfare agency must independently corroborate a report of abuse from an anonymous informant in order to separate a child and parent
• holding that allegations of neglect were insufficient, as a matter of law, to establish that caseworker had reasonable basis to suspect that a child was in imminent danger of abuse
• holding that a “child abuse investigation does not, in and of itself, constitute a constitutional deprivation”
• holding that even for natural parents, the right to custody is not “absolute” and must be balanced against “the compelling interests of the state in protecting children from abuse”
• holding that allegations of neglect were insufficient, as a matter of law, to establish that caseworker had reasonable basis to suspect that a child was in imminent danger of abuse
• noting that \[t]he right to familial integrity... does not include a right to remain free from child abuse investigations\

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