IN RE O.C.

No. 2D05-3123.

934 So.2d 623 (2006)

In the Interest of O.C., a child. L.M.C., Mother, Appellant, v. Department of Children and Family Services, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 26, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jessica C. Tien of Tien Law Group, Tampa, for Appellant.

Bernie McCabe, State Attorney, and D. Jeannine Dalton, Assistant State Attorney, Clearwater, for Appellee.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

L.M.C. appeals an order adjudicating her two-year-old child, O.C., dependent, based primarily upon a bruise the child received when she was approximately ten months old. At the time the bruise occurred, L.M.C. was incarcerated and the child was residing with a couple chosen by L.M.C. to care for the child. Because this unexplained incident of bruising is insufficient to support a finding of dependency...

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