40 A.D.2d 977 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1972
Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Kings County, dated August 22, 1972, which adjudged appellant a person in need of supervision and ordered her placed in the New York State Training School for 18 months. Order modified, on the law and the facts and in the exercise of discretion, by striking therefrom the decretal paragraph which ordered appellant placed in the training school for 18 months. As so modified, order affirmed, without costs, and proceeding remanded to the Family Court for a fuller exploration as to whether there are facilities other than the training school, more suitable for appellant. Appraising this record in the belief that a child in need of supervision (not a juvenile delinquent) should not be placed in the New York State Training School unless all other reasonable means of placement have been fully inves