People v. Anita B.

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• admissions by the mother respondent regarding the health and endangerment of her child constituted substantive evidence to be considered by the court during neglect proceedings
• an officer’s observation of a minor crying after the event he described in the out-of-court statement is corroboration of the hearsay
• “Parents are not free to stand by as disinterested witnesses when such deleterious events materialize. It was the mother’s obligation, both morally and legally, to intervene on Walter’s behalf”
• testimony from caseworker and medical records corroborated that child was physically and sexually abused

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).