N.J. v. Department of Children & Families

SLEET, Judge.

N.J., the father, appeals an order finding that the State proved by a preponderance of the evidence that he abused his son, A.W.J., and adjudicating A.W.J. dependent. He argues on appeal that the trial court erred in adjudicating A.W.J. dependent because the State failed to meet its evidentiary burden. We agree and reverse.

According to the. father’s testimony, he placed six-month-old A.W.J. in a Bumbo chair on the floor and went to the kitchen to retrieve a bottle. While the father was in the kitchen, A.W.J. pushed the chair over backwards and hit his head on the exposed concrete…