We reject defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence of "physical injury" (Penal Law § 10.00 [9]) with respect to one of the victims. There was ample evidence that the child in question suffered substantial pain, a fact which may be readily inferred, through the exercise of common sense, from all the circumstances, including the age of the child and the force of the blows (People v Tomczak,
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