The child's account of beating suffered at the hands of respondent, using an 18-inch stick embedded with nails, together with corroborating evidence of emergency room examination and treatment, constituted sufficient evidence that respondent was an abused child at substantial risk of death, serious disfigurement or bodily impairment (Family Ct Act § 1012 [e] [i], [ii]). Even though respondent, who was neither the mother nor the legal custodian of the child, had abandoned...
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