In re K.C.
Father, Francisco C., appeals only one order of the trial court in these dependency proceedings, the dispositional order that his visits with his two young children, K.C. and A.C., be monitored. Father does not appeal from the assertion of dependency jurisdiction over the children or from the order removing the children from their mother's custody, to be suitably placed under the supervision of the Department of Children and Family Services (Department). We affirm the order, finding the court did not abuse its discretion in ordering that father's visits were to be monitored, with discretion placed in the Department to liberalize visitation.
Father was incarcerated in federal prison serving a 21-month sentence for drug trafficking when the children came to the attention of the Department for neglect while in the care of their mother. When he began to serve his sentence, K.C. was less than two years old, and A.C. was eight months old. Mother told a Department social worker that before his incarceration, father had little contact with the children, did not provide for them emotionally or financially, and the children regarded mother's live-in boyfriend as their father. Mother did not even know father was in prison because his contact with the family had been so minimal.
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