In re Hadja B.

Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Sarah Schechter, J.), entered on or about May 25, 2000, placing the subject child with petitioner agency for a period of 12 months, upon a finding of neglect, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The finding that respondent inflicted excessive corporal punishment on the child is supported by a preponderance of the evidence adduced at the fact-finding hearing, including the child’s sworn, in camera, testimony, consistent with her prior statements as testified to by petitioner’s social workers, that respondent repeatedly hit her with various…