C.M. v. Department of Children & Family Services

ALTENBERND, Judge.

C.M. appeals an order adjudicating all three of her children dependent based upon evidence that the eldest of the three, a young girl, was sexually abused by C.M.’s boyfriend. We reverse the adjudication as it relates to the youngest child, an infant, J.A. The Department of Children and Family Services has conceded that it failed to present competent, substantial evidence that J.A. was abandoned, abused, or neglected, or at substantial risk of imminent abandonment, abuse, or neglect. We affirm the adjudication as to the two older children, however, because there was…