Matter of Naitalya B. (Melissa B.)

Order of fact-finding, Family Court, New York County (Clark V. Richardson, J.), entered on or about June 26, 2015, which found that respondent mother neglected her daughter and derivatively neglected her son, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The Family Court’s findings that the mother neglected her daughter and derivatively neglected her son were supported by a preponderance of the evidence. The record showed that the mother inflicted excessive corporal punishment on her daughter by striking her with her hand and with a plastic softball bat, causing the child to sustain bruises all over…