MATTER OF ATHENA M

We agree with Family Court that the evidence of acts of severe violence between respondents in the presence of their children is sufficient to show, "as a matter of common sense", that the children were in imminent danger of becoming impaired within the meaning of Family Court Act § 1012 Fam. Ct. Act (f) (i) (B), and indeed that the oldest child had already suffered actual emotional harm. Such findings may be made without expert evidence ( Matter of Lonell J., 242 A.D.2d 58; accord, Matter of Deandre T., 253 A.D.2d 497).

Concur — Tom, J. P., Mazzarelli, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.