10:129-5.3 Investigation findings |
(a) The child protective investigator shall evaluate the available information and, for each allegation, determine whether abuse or neglect has occurred, and shall make a finding of either substantiated or unfounded. | ||
(b) The child protective investigator shall make every reasonable effort to identify the perpetrator for each allegation of abuse or neglect. | ||||
(c) The child protective investigator shall make the finding for each report within 60 days of the report being received at the State Central Registry, except for good cause approved by the office manager or designee. The officer manager or designee may grant extensions in increments of 30 days, if the child protective investigator is continuing efforts to confirm credible information. | ||||
(d) The child protective investigator shall not make a finding of substantiated on an allegation of medical neglect or medical neglect of a disabled infant when the harm or risk of harm to a child is the sole result of treatment in good faith by spiritual means alone through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination by a duly accredited practitioner thereof. | ||||
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