The father of S. B., Ka. B., Ke. B., and T. B. appeals from an order of the Juvenile Court of DeKalb County, arguing that the court erred in finding that the children were deprived and that the court’s deprivation order was deficient. For the reasons set forth infra , we affirm. In an appeal from a deprivation order, we review the evidence from a juvenile court hearing “in the light most favorable to the court’s judgment and determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the children were deprived.”1 So viewed, the evidence shows that in early February 2009, S. B., who was thirteen years old at the time, confided to a friend at school that her father had forced her to have sexual intercourse with him on several occasions. S. B.’s friend told the school’s counselor about this revelation, and the counselor, in turn, informed the school’s resource officer and DeKalb County DFCS. The resource officer then spoke with S. B., at which time she repeated that her father had been forcing her to have sexual intercourse with him over the course of the last year. S. B. also informed the resource officer that her mother had caught her father having sexual intercourse with her on two separate occasions but did nothing to stop this abuse. Later, when the resource officer questioned S. B.’s mother about these allegations, the mother admitted that she had twice caught her husband having sexual intercourse with S. B. Both S. B. and her mother repeated these same allegations to the DFCS investigator initially assigned to the case.
Based on S. B.’s outcry, a police officer interviewed S. B.’s sister T. B., who was fourteen years old at the time. Although T. B. did not allege that her father had ever forced her to have sex with him, she did reveal that her father had recently punished her by making her fully undress and then touching her breasts and buttocks. The same police officer also interviewed S. B. and T. B.’s father after informing him of his Miranda rights. During that interview, the father initially denied any wrongdoing, but he eventually admitted that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with S. B. on several occasions and that he had made T. B. remove all her clothes on one occasion to punish her. The father also acknowledged that his wife the children’s mother had twice caught him having sexual intercourse with S. B. As a result of this interview, the police officer arrested the father. In addition, DFCS removed S. B., T. B. and their two younger siblings, Ke. B. and Ka. B., from the home.
