In the Interest of L.C. v. Department of Children & Family Services

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

L.R. is the mother of two children who were adjudicated dependent both as to her and as to their father, J.C.1 We reverse.

The petition for dependency2 alleged that the children were at “substantial risk or imminent threat of harm o[r] abuse or neglect” from L.R. on four bases: violence, § 39.01(30)(i), Fla. Stat. (2005); failure to protect the children, § 39.01(30)®; substance or alcohol abuse, § 39.01(30)(g); *1243and abandonment, § 39.010(1). See § 39.01(14)(f). The circuit court found that the Department of Children and Family Services had failed to prove the alleged…