IN RE S.M.

No. 2D03-5797.

874 So.2d 720 (2004)

In the Interest of S.M., a child. E.K., Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

June 9, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimberly A. Campbell of the Law Offices of Thomas J. Donnelly, Clearwater, for Appellant.

Bernie McCabe, State Attorney, and Mariela Llanes, Assistant State Attorney, Clearwater, for Appellee.


CASANUEVA, Judge.

After sheltering S.M. in the days following her premature birth, the Department of Children and Family Services filed a petition to declare her a dependent child. During the dependency proceedings, S.M.'s mother testified that she did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth to the child, that she moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Florida soon after S.M. was conceived, that the child's father was E.K., with whom she maintained a sexual...

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