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2015 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 6 - (411 - 428) CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
420 - Penalties for failure to report.

NY Soc Serv L § 420 (2015) What's This?
  420.  Penalties for failure to report.  1.  Any person, official or
  institution required by this title to report a case of  suspected  child
  abuse  or maltreatment who willfully fails to do so shall be guilty of a
  class A misdemeanor.

2.  Any person, official or institution  required  by  this  title  to
  report a case of suspected child abuse or maltreatment who knowingly and
  willfully  fails  to  do  so  shall  be  civilly  liable for the damages
  proximately caused by such failure.

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