Officials in a Westchester County school district were not obligated to report an allegation of the possible sexual abuse of a third-grade girl because they did not have “reasonable cause” to suspect the abuse had occurred, a judge has decided.
Supreme Court Justice William J. Giacomo in Westchester County (See Profile) ruled that teachers and administrators at the Bedford Central School District moved promptly in December 2005 to inquire whether the girl, identified as Diana G-D, had been abused after the mother of another girl alerted school officials that her daughter heard Diana tell a friend on a playground that she was having sex “with her father.”
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