The uncontested evidence that respondent hit her 15-year old daughter in the head with a wooden table leg from which a nail protruded, causing a laceration to the scalp that required stitches, was sufficient to show abuse (Family Ct Act § 1012 [e]; Matter of Robert W., 234 A.D.2d 23). Placement of the children with the Commissioner was supported by the mental health evaluator's testimony that respondent told him that she would continue to use extreme forms of physical punishment to discipline the child, his diagnosis that respondent was suffering from severe psychopathology that seriously impaired her judgment and parenting skills, and respondent's incoherence while testifying.
Concur — Rosenberger, J.P., Nardelli, Rubin and Williams, JJ.