Brief explaining that the Administration for Children’s Services (“ACS”) of New York City had a policy and practice of presumptively removing children from battered mothers and charging them with neglect for “engaging in domestic violence.” Under the ACS policy, children are removed and women charged simply because the mothers were victims of domestic violence, relying on stereotypes (N.Y. Ct. App. May 2004).
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