MATTER OF QUISBEL D.P.

Docket Nos. NN-00943/19, NN-009444/19. Appeal No. 14569-14569A. Case No. 2021-00617.

199 A.D.3d 468 (2021)

154 N.Y.S.3d 236

2021 NY Slip Op 06097

In the Matter of Quisbel D.P. and Another, Infants. Digna D.P., Appellant; Administration for Children's Services, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided November 9, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol L. Kahn , New York, for appellant.

Georgia M. Pestana , Corporation Counsel, New York ( Antonella Karlin of counsel), for respondent.

Dawne A. Mitchell , The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Diane Pazar of counsel), attorney for the children.

Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Oing, Moulton, Scarpulla, JJ.


A preponderance of the evidence supports the determination that the mother neglected the subject child by inflicting excessive corporal punishment, thereby placing the child at imminent risk of physical and emotional harm (see Matter of Paige T. [Kodjo T.], 189 A.D.3d 563, 564 [1st Dept 2020]). The child's out-of-court statements concerning the incident were corroborated by the mother's admission that she hit the child with

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