48 A.D.2d 879 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1975
In two consolidated proceedings, in which respective adjudications of the Family Court, Kings County, that appellant is a person in need of supervision and a juvenile delinquent were made, the appeal is from an order of said court, dated December 11, 1974, which, upon the juvenile delinquency adjudication, ordered appellant placed with the Division for Youth, Title III (State Training School). Order reversed, without costs, and case remanded to the Family Court for a further dispositional hearing and further proceedings not inconsistent with the views herein set forth. In our opinion it was an improvident exercise of discretion to commit appellant to the State Training School. The record indicates that the Office of Probation for the courts of New York City failed to make any effort to follow the primary recommendation of a psychiatrist of the Bureau of Mental Health Services (Family Court) encompassing individual psychother