10987-10987A. IN RE BENJAMIN D. AND ANOTHER, DEPENDENT CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS, ETC., VIANUVIA D., res-ap, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN’S SERVICES, pet-res — Richard L. Herzfeld, P.C., New York (Richard L. Herzfeld of counsel), for ap — Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Janet L. Zaleon of counsel), for res — TAMARA A. STECKLER, THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY, NEW YORK (PATRICIA COLELLA OF COUNSEL), ATTORNEY FOR THE CHILDREN.—Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Monica Drinane, J.), entered on or about May 30, 2012, which, upon a fact-finding determination that appellant mother had neglected the subject children, transferred custody of them to petitioner until the next permanency hearing, and directed her to comply with drug treatment at VIP and participate in family therapy with one of the children, unanimously affirmed, insofar as it brings up for review the fact-finding determination, and the appeal therefrom otherwise dismissed, without costs, as moot. Appeal from fact-finding order of the same court and Judge entered on or about April 25, 2012, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from the order of disposition.
The court properly found that the mother had neglected the subject children through the infliction of excessive corporal punishment on them, based on the testimony of the caseworker and the hospital records, which indicated that she hit one of the children in the face on one occasion, and hit him with metal bed poles, after a visit from the caseworker. The children’s statements concerning the mother’s conduct were corroborated by the caseworker’s observation of a scratch on one child’s jaw, and the hospital records (see Matter of Nicole V., 71 NY2d 112, 117-118 [1987]).
