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        "text": "McGEE, Judge.\nR.T. (Respondent) appeals from an order adjudicating his son, C.T., as neglected, and his daughter, B.T., as abused and neglected.\nThe Cumberland County Department of Social Services (DSS) received a report of suspected sexual abuse of B.T. on or about 13 May 2005, after B.T. wrote a note to her teacher stating that B.T. had been raped by her father. A social worker went to the school to interview B.T., who was emotional and unable to speak. B.T. wrote on a piece of paper that \u201cmy dad raped me.\u201d The social worker went to B.T.\u2019s home and spoke to Respondent, who denied the allegation. DSS filed a petition on 9 June 2005 alleging that B.T. had been sexually abused and neglected, and that C.T. was neglected.\nDr. Laura Gutman (Dr. Gutman) performed a medical examination on B.T. Dr. Gutman stated that the results of the examination were consistent with B.T.\u2019s allegations that, from approximately November 2004 to May 2005, Respondent had come into B.T.\u2019s bedroom, removed B.T.\u2019s clothing, got into bed with her, rubbed her breasts and vaginal area, and rubbed his penis in and around B.T.\u2019s vaginal area. Respondent also placed B.T.\u2019s hand on his penis.\nBoth B.T. and C.T. suffered from bed wetting, and B.T. suffered from encopresis (soiling of pants). Although B.T. was eleven years old, she wore pull-ups, a form of diaper. B.T. and C.T. had not received any medical treatment for these conditions since 2001. In the weeks prior to disclosure of the sexual abuse, B.T. experienced soiling of her pants, and her grades at school declined sharply. B.T. also told Dr. Gutman that she suffered nightmares.\nIn an order filed 17 March 2006, the trial court found that a Pender County court had previously found that Respondent had sexually assaulted a stepdaughter by \u201ccommitting acts very similar\u201d to those described by B.T. The trial court adjudicated B.T. abused and neglected, and C.T. neglected. Respondent filed a notice of appeal on 6 April 2006. Respondent did not attach a certificate of service to the notice of appeal. DSS and the Guardian ad Litem filed a motion before the trial court on 21 April 2006 to dismiss Respondent\u2019s appeal for (1) Respondent\u2019s failure to timely file the notice of appeal; and (2) Respondent\u2019s failure to properly serve the notice of appeal by failing to attach a certificate of service acknowledging service of all parties to the action. In an order filed 30 June 2006, the trial court denied the motion to dismiss.\nAfter the record was filed with this Court, DSS and the Guardian ad Litem filed a motion to dismiss asserting the same grounds for dismissal. Because we find that Respondent\u2019s failure to attach a certificate of service to the notice of appeal is fatal, we dismiss this appeal.\nOur appellate rules provide that a party entitled to take an appeal may \u201cappeal by filing notice of appeal with the clerk of superior court and serving copies thereof upon all other parties[.]\u201d N.C.R. App. R 3(a). The Rules of Appellate Procedure also require that\n[p]apers presented for filing shall contain an acknowledgment of service by the person served or proof of service in the form of a statement of the date and manner of service and of the names of the persons served, certified by the person who made service. Proof of service shall appear on or be affixed to the papers filed.\nN.C.R. App. P. 26(d). In Ribble v. Ribble, 180 N.C. App. 341, 343, 637 S.E.2d 239, 240 (2006), this Court held that in light of Viar v. N.C. Dep\u2019t of Transp., 359 N.C. 400, 610 S.E.2d 360, reh\u2019g denied, 359 N.C. 643, 617 S.E.2d 662 (2005), and Munn v. N.C. State Univ., 360 N.C. 353, 626 S.E.2d 270 (2006), \u201cthe failure to include the certificate of service as a violation of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure is no longer \u2018inconsequential.\u2019 \u201d In the present case, as in Dibble,\n[t]he record before this Court contains a copy of the notice of appeal filed by [Respondent]; however, there is no certificate of service of the notice of appeal as required by our Appellate Rules 3 and 26 and [DSS and the Guardian ad Litem] ha[ve] not waived [Respondent\u2019s] failure to include proof of service of his notice of appeal. Therefore, we must dismiss this appeal.\nId. at 343, 637 S.E.2d at 240. We find Ribble indistinguishable from the case before us, and therefore dismiss Respondent\u2019s appeal. Because this defect is fatal to Respondent\u2019s appeal, we do not determine whether the notice of appeal was timely filed.\nDismissed.\nChief Judge MARTIN concurs.\nJudge WYNN dissents by separate opinion.",
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        "text": "WYNN, Judge,\ndissenting:\nFor the reasons given in my dissenting opinion in Hale v. Afro-American Arts Int'l, 110 N.C. App. 621, 430 S.E.2d 457 which were adopted per curiam by our Supreme Court in Hale v. Afro-American Arts Int\u2019l, 335 N.C. 231, 436 S.E.2d 588 (1993), I dissent.\nViar v. N.C. Dep\u2019t of Transp., 359 N.C. 400, 610 S.E.2d 360 (2005) did not overrule the well-settled holding of Hale. Accordingly, and with due respect, this Court in Ribble v. Ribble, 180 N.C. App. 341, 637 S.E.2d 239 (2006) did not have the authority to overrule our Supreme Court\u2019s holding in Hale.",
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      "Elizabeth Kennedy-Gurnee for Petitioner-Appellee Cumberland County Department of Social Services.",
      "Lisa Skinner Leflerfor Respondent-Appellant.",
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    "head_matter": "IN THE MATTER OF: C.T. and B.T.\nNo. COA06-1272\n(Filed 6 March 2007)\nAppeal and Error\u2014 preservation of issues \u2014 failure to attach certificate of service to notice of appeal\nRespondent father\u2019s appeal from an order adjudicating his son as neglected and his daughter as abused and neglected is dismissed because respondent\u2019s failure to attach a certificate of service to the notice of appeal is fatal.\nJudge Wynn dissenting.\nAppeal by Respondent from order entered 17 March 2006 by Judge Edward A. Pone in District Court, Cumberland County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 19 February 2007.\nElizabeth Kennedy-Gurnee for Petitioner-Appellee Cumberland County Department of Social Services.\nLisa Skinner Leflerfor Respondent-Appellant.\nBeth A. Hall for Guardian ad Litem."
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