Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York May 9, 2002 (In re Arielle LL.)

Crew III, J.

(dissenting). We respectfully dissent. “A child’s unsworn out-of-court statement relating to abuse or neglect may be introduced into evidence at a fact-finding hearing and, if sufficiently corroborated, will support a finding of abuse or neglect * * *” (Matter of Stephen GG., 279 AD2d 651, 652 [citation omitted]).