§ 418. Mandatory reporting to and post-mortem investigation of deaths
by medical examiner or coroner. Any person or official required to
report cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment, including workers
of the local child protective service who has reasonable cause to
suspect that a child died as a result of child abuse or maltreatment
shall report that fact to the appropriate medical examiner or coroner.
The medical examiner or coroner shall accept the report for
investigation and shall issue a preliminary written report of his or her
finding within sixty days of the date of death, absent extraordinary
circumstances, and his or her final written report promptly, absent
extraordinary circumstances, to the police, the appropriate district
attorney, the local child protective service, the office of children and
family services, and, if the institution making the report is a
hospital, the hospital. The office of children and family services shall
promptly provide a copy of the preliminary and final reports to the
statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.