The case of a mother who enlisted her 5-year-old son to shoplift clothes should be removed from a the state’s central registry of child abuse and maltreatment, a divided appellate court has ruled.
In an unusual defeat for the state agency that maintains the registry, a 3-2 majority of the Appellate Division, First Department, said the agency failed to follow proper legal standards in refusing to expunge an “indicated report” of the mother’s conduct.
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