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Hello Brooklineborn,
It is interesting to hear that New York is widening the scope of their child abuse/neglect reporting laws as well. That has certainly been the case here in Pennsylvania as well. Indeed, within the past several years, our CPS statute added the second-hand information requirement like New York. We have had numerous high profile deaths in Philadelphia of children known to Children & Youth Services. As you mention, there is also the Penn State situation in the forefront or background on any given day, and then we have the guilty sentence that just recently came down on the supervising Catholic priest in the Philadelphia Archdiocese who was found by a jury to have failed to take sufficient action to protect children from pedophile priests.
In the ten years that I have been practicing, I do not think that child welfare law has ever been so much in the daily news in the Commonwealth or perhaps the nation as it has been in the past year or so.
Good luck to you MorahRach!
Hello MorahRach,
In my work, I have noticed on many occasions a lack of communication between government entities that have specific protocols to interact with each other — e.g., children & youth services and the police department.
That being said, the unit of the police department that would be most used to interacting with and reporting to children & youth services due to frequent collaboration would be New York City Police Department’s equivalent of a Special Victim’s Unit (it may be called that in fact, as it was in the large city where I formerly practiced). The officer who responds to the equivalent of a 911 call initially probably is not an officer in the Special Victim’s Unit, nor a detective in same.
Nonetheless, the mandatory reporter fulfills the legal duty to report and avoids criminal and civil penalties by reporting to the local child abuse hotline, which is distinct from calling the police via the 911 equivalent in New York City. The mandatory reporter duty and the phone number for the hotline are posted on the New York City Administration for Children’s Services website.
Hello MorahRach,
I am a child advocate attorney in a different state, where I have both represented children and before that represented a major city’s child welfare department (the city social workers).
When people have inquired of me in that capacity about things similar to your inquiries here, I have advised them that, in my state, there are criminal charges (misdemeanors) that can be brought against mandated reporters who fail to report to the local child abuse hotline.
In my very brief Internet search into New York’s child welfare laws, it appears to me that New York imposes both criminal penalties and can seek to hold mandatory reporters who fail to report liable in civil court for any damages that result due to that failure to report.
G-d forbid anything happens in the next two weeks.
I understand that you have a newborn and are moving, which makes the timing awful.
Nonetheless, I can not encourage you strongly enough to make the report as soon as possible, based upon the fact that you are a mandatory reporter and due to the civil and criminal penalties that New York imposes on mandatory reporters who do not report.
At least I have always enjoyed being a perpetual student 🙂
Hello Shopping613, thank you! It is indeed just me — I have quite a time keeping up as it is with just my one as I try to soak up what everyone is saying.
Thank you takahmamash! So it seems that I (a native English speaker) will be learning a gendered language, as when I learned French and Latin in school. This is good to know!
Yes, quite nice, thank you The Goq!
Thank you I Can Only Try for your welcome and well wishes! I am very excited 🙂 And each new word I learn with help like yours makes me feel like one more little piece of the puzzle is falling into place.
Hello I Can Only Try,
I want to be respectful of Shabbos, so I inquired of the CR Welcome Wagon CEO The Goq regarding the beginning and ending time of the Shabbos that we just had. I inquired because I did not want to post at an inappropriate time, and because I am trying to change my ways that are not observant of Shabbos. I spoke a bit about all of this in The Goq’s welcome wagon thread. I also found a couple websites with exact Shabbos times for my zip code so that I will have this information for future Sabbaths (I don’t know the plural of “Shabbos” yet!).
What I am trying to say is, I understand your concern, and I am dedicated to making respect of Orthodox practices my top priority here.
There is so much I don’t know yet, but I am trying hard. I am embracing all the feedback and suggestions that I am getting.
Thank you for all of your help The Goq! I hope you had a restful Shabbos.
I should have also asked what time (EST) that people begin posting tomorrow night? And Good Shabbos to everyone! …I am fearful that maybe I am posting too late already and am sorry if that is the case.
Wow, why thank you The Goq!! I was just thinking of introducing myself when I saw this thread pop up as being fresh…I had been digging through old threads last night trying to find it but kept getting sidetracked reading people’s fascinating discussions until 2 am (Eastern Standard Time in the USA).
Everyone has been so friendly and welcoming like you. I am a really new newbie, in that I am working towards becoming Jewish after finding Jewish roots on my mother’s mother’s side of the family. I have described a little bit more about this situation at the first thread I have ever started here (after reading a lot here for more than a year).
I look forward to all the learning and sense of community to come!
Can anyone tell me what time today (EST) that it is the practice for people to stop commenting due to the Sabbath?
I am trying to become more aware of my ways that are what I think you would call “goyish” (is that how you would phrase it)? I have gained some skill in the past year learning approximate meanings of words in these posts that are new to me, through context clues in the sentences. But I am very loathe to commit faux pas and do not want to say something inappropriate by accident!