In re Jennifer G.

By order dated November 5, 1984, we reversed an order entered by the Family Court, Kings County, which, inter alia, *802directed the petitioner to return the children to their mother (Matter of Jennifer G., 105 AD2d 701). Since the evidence at that hearing “demonstrated that the return of the children to their mother presents an imminent risk to the children’s health”, we directed that an immediate fact-finding hearing be held pursuant to Family Court Act § 1044 (Matter of Jennifer G., supra, p 702).

The mother’s admission, at the fact-finding hearing, of the use of excessive corporal punishment,…