Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York January 14, 2014 (In re Rachel S.D.)

*451The court properly determined that petitioner proved by a preponderance of the evidence that the mother abused and neglected Genesis, and derivatively neglected Rachel, based on Rachel’s statements to a doctor at the hospital and to an Administration for Children’s Services caseworker that the mother hit Genesis in the face with a closed fist, pulled Genesis’s hair, and spanked Genesis, after