O.S. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES

No. 4D01-3948.

821 So.2d 1145 (2002)

O.S., The Mother, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 3, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kristine M. Johnson, Pembroke Pines, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Laurel R. Wiley, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


WARNER, J.

The mother appeals an order declaring both of her daughters dependent, claiming that there was no competent, substantial evidence to support the trial court's ruling as to either child. We disagree and affirm.

The dependency adjudication was based upon an incident in which the mother beat her fifteen year old daughter with a wooden paddle until her buttocks was black and blue when she discovered the daughter was skipping classes and forging her...

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