RC v. Department of Children and Families

917 So.2d 241 (2005)

R.C., Father of R.C., J.G., P.G., S.G., etc., Appellant,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.

No. 5D05-2412.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

December 9, 2005.

R. Mitchell Prugh, of Middleton & Prugh, P.A., Melrose, for Appellant.

Denise E. Mensh, St. Augustine, for Appellee.

GRIFFIN, J.

The sole issue in this appeal is the admission of hearsay testimony of child abuse in a post-dispositional context in a dependency case.

Not long after the adoption of a case plan for both parents of five severely neglected children, information came to light that…