Matter of Jamari R.

Holding The Family Court’s determination that the mother neglected the child was supported by a sound and substantial basis in the record. The mother’s failure to seek assistance for the child and her refusal of preventive services, combined with her failure to testify, established neglect.

The court’s words

whose physical, mental or emotional condition has been impaired or is in imminent danger of becoming impaired as a result of the failure of [the] parent . . . to exercise a minimum degree of care

2026 NY Slip Op 04655, at the official text

the mother did not seek services or assistance for the subject child, an action a reasonably prudent parent would have been expected to take under the circumstances

2026 NY Slip Op 04655, at the official text

the mother refused preventive services offered by petitioner upon the subject child's placement in foster care and denied the need for such services

2026 NY Slip Op 04655, at the official text