LEROY RICHARDSON, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• In the Interest of M.F. and M.F. v. Fla. Dep't of Child. & Families, 770 So. 2d 1189 (Fla. 2000)
  …Family Servs., 733 So. 2d 1145 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1999) (upholding dependency of five stepchildren based on father’s sexual abuse of one of them-with no further showing of risk to the others). . See, e.g., Eddy v. Department of Children & Family Servs., 704 So. 2d 734 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998) (reversing dependency of natural daughter where father had been placed on probation years earlier for abusing two nephews when father was thirteen to sixteen years old-with no further showing of risk to the present daughter); Den…
• Dep't OF Child. & Families v. B.B. and T.B., 824 So. 2d 1000 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002)
  …ons made on the basis that the children involved were at risk for prospective abuse and/or neglect. See, e.g., In re M.F. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, 770 So. 2d 1189 (Fla.2000); Eddy v. Department of Children and Family Services, 704 So. 2d 734 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998); Denson v. Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, 661 So. 2d 934 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995). To be found dependent on this basis, the statute requires the child to be “at substantial risk of imminent abuse, abandonment, or ne…
• Roshonda Keys Gaines v. Dep't OF Child. & Families, 711 So. 2d 190 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998)
  …reverse the finding of his dependency, since the sole basis was prospective abuse. There was no nexus between the prior abuse of L.K.’s brothers and the allegation of prospective abuse against L.K. Eddy v. Department of Children and Family Services, 704 So. 2d 734 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998); Tolley, 667 So. 2d at 481; Denson v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services, 661 So. 2d 934 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995). Finally, it is clear that termination is not the least restrictive means of protecting the child. L.K. was…