United States v. District Council of New York City

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• holding that a \spouse has a duty of care to take reasonable steps to prevent or warn of the harm\ resulting from the sexual abuse of a child
• holding that prolonged sexual abuse of neighboring adolescent girls by defendant’s husband with known proclivity for such behavior not a superseding cause of wife’s negligent failure to warn victims or take other reasonable steps to prevent harm to them
• stating that violation of child-abuse reporting statute, N.J.S.A. 9:6-8.10, “may constitute evidence of negligence in [appropriate] circumstances”
• holding that a wife could be held liable for negligent failure to prevent or warn about her husband's sexual abuse when the wife had actual knowledge or special reason to know that the husband was likely to abuse a particular person or persons
• holding that a wife could be held liable for negligent failure to prevent or warn about her husband's sexual abuse when the wife had actual knowledge or special reason to know that the husband was likely to abuse a particular person or persons
• noting that foreseeability of harm is the “foundational” element in the duty analysis and is “susceptible to objective analysis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).