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

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, L.C. challenges dependency adjudications of his four children, three sons and one daughter, based solely on his daughter’s allegation that he sexually abused her.

There was insufficient evidence to support the boys’ dependency based on an alleged risk of future harm by the father. As the Florida Supreme Court held in In re M.F., 770 So.2d 1189, 1194 (Fla.2000):

A simple showing by DCF that a parent committed a sex act on one child does not by itself constitute proof that the parent poses a substantial risk of imminent abuse or neglect to the…