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EVIDENCE OF EXCESSIVE CORPORAL PUNISHMENT WARRANTED A NEGLECT FINDING, FAMILY COURT REVERSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Family Court, determined that the evidence of excessive corporal punishment warranted a finding of neglect:

A party seeking to establish neglect must establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, ” first that [the] child’s physical, mental or emotional condition has been impaired or is in imminent danger of becoming impaired and second, that the actual or threatened harm to the child is a consequence of the failure of the parent or caretaker to exercise a minimum degree of care in providing the child with proper supervision or guardianship’ ” … . Although a parent may use reasonable force to discipline his or her child to promote the child’s welfare … , the “infliction of excessive corporal punishment” constitutes neglect (Family Ct Act § 1012 [f] [i] [B]). Indeed, ” a single incident of excessive corporal punishment is sufficient to support a finding of neglect’ ” … .

Here, petitioner established by a preponderance of the evidence that the father neglected the child by inflicting excessive corporal punishment (see generally Family Ct Act § 1012 [f] [i] [B]). At the hearing, petitioner presented, among other things, witness testimony and medical records indicating that the child sustained a bruised left temple, a bruised eye, and a bloody and swollen nose after the father struck him … . Matter of Justin M.F. (Randall L.F.), 2019 NY Slip Op 01907, Fourth Dept 3-15-19

 

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