Opinion
302
February 27, 2003.
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Clark Richardson, J., upon fact-finding determination of Marjorie Fields, J.), entered on or about August 4, 2000, adjudging the subject child neglected by respondent upon findings of excessive corporal punishment and verbal abuse, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
THOMAS CARUSO, for Respondent-Appellant.
NANCY BOTWINIK, for Petitioner-Respondent.
DEBORAH WEISS, for Petitioner-Respondent.
Before: Tom, J.P., Andrias, Buckley, Williams, Friedman, JJ.
The findings that respondent inflicted excessive corporal punishment and verbally abused the child is adequately supported by the child's out-of-court statements that respondent repeatedly hit him with various objects and disparaged him with epithets, as testified to by petitioner's caseworker and corroborated by the caseworker's observation of a bruise on the child's face (see Matter of R./W. Children, 240 A.D.2d 324). No basis exists to disturb Family Court's findings of credibility (see Matter of Samantha S., 296 A.D.2d 327).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.