C.D. v. Department of Children & Families

C.D., mother of D.C., a child, appeals an order adjudicating her child dependent. She argues that the trial court declared her child dependent based solely on her financial condition. We affirm.

The child whose dépendency is at issue is D.C., the three-month-old infant whose mother, C.D., is herself a dependent juvenile residing in the same emergency placement as her son. The facts are heartbreaking. The mother, C.D., and two of her siblings, fourteen and twelve years of age, were abandoned by their mother in 1993. Her father is in prison, serving a life sentence for the murder of one of her…