The mother of Tah. V., Tan. V., Te. V., and The. V. appeals from an order of the juvenile court finding the children to be deprived and continuing their temporary custody in the Gwinnett County Department of Children and Family Services “the Department”, asserting that there was insufficient evidence to support that order. Finding that the evidence supported the juvenile court’s finding that the children were currently deprived, we affirm the same. We further hold that the question of whether the juvenile court erred in continuing the Department’s temporary custody of the children was rendered moot by the subsequent return of the children to their mother’s custody. “On appeal from a determination that a child is deprived, we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the juvenile court’s judgment to determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the child was deprived.” Punctuation omitted. In the Interest of A. B. 1 In so doing, “this Court neither weighs evidence nor determines the credibility of witnesses; rather, we defer to the juvenile court’s fact-finding and affirm unless the appellate standard is not met.” Punctuation omitted. In the Interest of L. F. 2
So viewed, the record shows that the Department took the children into protective custody on February 13, 2009, after Tah. V. was stabbed in the neck by his 18-year-old sister. Responding to the incident, the police found the sister, together with her infant son, the four children, and their infant sister Tre. V., all living together in a single motel room.3 The mother also resided in the same motel room, but she was away for the evening and law enforcement’s attempts to contact her that night were unsuccessful. According to police reports, the motel room was unsanitary, with rotting food, dirty dishes, and clothes piled everywhere, and the children were all “sick and coughing.”