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DESIRIE CAMACHO, etc., et al., appellants-respondents, v. EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., respondents, CHESTNUT RIDGE TRANSPORTATION, INC., et al., respondents-appellants, et al., defendant.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is modified by deleting the provision thereof granting the cross motion of the defendant East Ramapo Central School District for summary judgment, and substituting therefor a provision denying that cross motion; as so modified, the order is affirmed insofar as appealed and cross-appealed from, with costs to the plaintiffs payable by the defendant East Ramapo Central School District.

The infant plaintiff was sexually assaulted by the infant defendant while being transported home on a school bus owned and operated by the defendant Chestnut Ridge Transportation, Inc. (hereinafter Chestnut Ridge), and driven by the defendant Daniel Pearlstein. The defendant East Ramapo Central School District (hereinafter the School District) contracted with Chestnut Ridge to provide transportation to and from school for the students.

The School District's cross motion for summary judgment should have been denied, as it retained control and custody over the infant plaintiff ( see, Pratt v. Robinson, 39 N.Y.2d 554), but failed to meet its burden of making a prima facie showing that it had no notice of the infant defendant's alleged proclivity to engage in sexual misconduct.

Similarly, an issue of fact remains as to whether the defendants Chestnut Ridge and Daniel Pearlstein had notice of the infant defendant's alleged proclivity to engage in sexual misconduct, and thus whether that misconduct was foreseeable. The motion of the defendants Chestnut Ridge and Daniel Pearlstein for summary judgment was therefor properly denied ( see, CPLR 3212[b]).

Dominick and Cynthia Esposito were properly granted summary judgment, as there was no showing that they had notice of their son's proclivity to engage in sexual misconduct ( see, Armour v. England, 210 A.D.2d 561).

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CAMACHO v. EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DIST
(Jun 1, 1999)