Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 12, 2012 (In re Keijonte W.)

Article 10 of the Family Court Act defines an “abused child” as, inter alia, “a child under the age of 18 whose parent or other person legally responsible for the child’s care ‘commits, or allows to be committed, a sex offense against such child’ ” (Matter of Philip M., 82 NY2d 238, 243 [1993], quoting Family Ct Act § 1012 [e] [iii]).