Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Gavrin, J.), rendered October 27, 2008, convicting him of endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for a new trial.
The defendant is the biological father of the complainant, who was raised in the Netherlands. At trial, the complainant testified that she first met the defendant in July 2002, at the age of 14, when she traveled to the United States for the first time. According to the complainant, the defendant had sexual intercourse with her following their first meeting in July 2002, and also during subsequent meetings in February 2003, while she was visiting the defendant in the United States. In October 2003 the complainant once again visited the defendant in the United States. During that visit, the complainant attempted suicide and was admitted to a hospital. In October 2006 the complainant reported these allegations to law enforcement officials in the United States.
As a result, the defendant was charged with two counts of rape in the second degree (one count was later reduced to rape in the third degree), two counts of incest (one count was later dismissed with the People’s consent), and endangering the welfare of a child. After a jury trial, the defendant was found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child.
Upon our independent review pursuant to CPL 470.15 (5), we are satisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633 [2006]). Upon weighing the “relative probative force of conflicting testimony and the relative strength of conflicting inferences that may be drawn from the testimony,” we cannot conclude that the trier of fact failed to give the evidence the weight it should have been accorded (People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see CPL 470.15 [5]; People v Romero, 7 NY3d at 645-646).
We find that the error in precluding the defendant from submitting the subject portions of the hospital records into evidence was not harmless. We note that the jury acquitted the defendant of the crimes of rape and incest, and that the evidence against the defendant was far from overwhelming considering that the People’s case rested largely upon the complainant’s credibility. As it cannot be said that there is no reasonable possibility that the error contributed to the defendant’s conviction (see People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230, 237 [1975]), the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.