The finding that respondent inflicted excessive corporal punishment on the child is supported by a preponderance of the evidence adduced at the fact-finding hearing, including the child's sworn, in camera, testimony, consistent with her prior statements as testified to by petitioner's social workers, that respondent repeatedly hit her with various objects, causing her to bleed or leaving marks (see Matter of J. Children,
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