In the Interest of S.C. v. State

MILLS, Judge.

The parents of S.C. appeal from an adjudication that S.C. is a dependent child, and his placement in foster care. We affirm.

S.C. and his parents left Waterbury, Connecticut, in August 1983 and arrived in Jacksonville, Florida, in December of that year. In the interim, they resided in at least three other states. S.C. was then 21 months old and the parents’ third child. A petition for dependency was filed on 29 February 1984. The parents’ residence at the time of the petition was a motel room in Jacksonville.

The petition alleged six grounds for a declaration of dependency,…