JL v. Department of Children & Families

899 So.2d 1254 (2005)

J.L., the father, Appellant,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES, Appellee.

No. 4D04-3479.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 20, 2005.

Gary L. Pickett, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Jeffrey Dana Gillen, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

STONE, J.

J.L. (Father) appeals an order declaring his five-year-old son dependent. He claims that evidence of bruising was insufficient to establish the child had suffered harm and that dependency was not established by a preponderance of the evidence. We affirm.

In response to a telephone call from the grandmother of the…