In the recent matter of J.F. v. Department of Human Services, (docket number 72 MAP 2019), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has definitively decided how entry into an accelerated rehabilitative disposition program (ARD) can affect an appeal from a “founded” report from the Department of Human Services (DHS).

In J.F., DHS filed two identical reports identifying J.F. (the mother) as a perpetrator of abuse against her twin 15-month-old children. The alleged abuse committed by the mother includes neglect due to a failure to supervise. Specifically, J.F. left her children home alone for several hours while she went to a bar to drink. J.F. ultimately drank to the point of intoxication and semi-consciousness, and needed to be admitted to a hospital emergency room.

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