Remarks made to healthcare providers by a third party are admissible hearsay in child neglect proceedings, a Bronx Family Court judge has held.
Judge Robert Hettleman found that comments to physicians, social workers and mental health professionals are inherently reliable and therefore qualify for an exception to the hearsay rule, even if the remarks were made not by the patient but by someone else.
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