In the Interest of T. A.

The biological mother of T. A. appeals an order terminating her parental rights. She asserts that the evidence was insufficient to support a finding of parental misconduct or inability by clear and convincing evidence. After reviewing the record, we find otherwise and affirm. When considering a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in a termination of parental rights case, this court views the evidence in the light most favorable to the juvenile court’s determination. In the Interest of D. B. , 242 Ga. App. 763 531 SE2d 172 2000. When the evidence shows that any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the biological parent’s rights have been lost, we defer to the court’s factfinding. Id.

So viewed, the evidence shows that the Lamar County Department of Family and Children Services DFACS began its investigation of the mother when it received a report on June 11, 2004, that the mother had left T. A., her ten-month-old son, alone in a motel room with other young children. A charity had placed the mother and children in the hotel room as a result of a domestic incident between the mother and William Piper, with whom the mother and children had been living. As DFACS was aware of a substantiated child sexual abuse case against Piper,1 it prepared a safety plan forbidding the mother from returning to Piper’s home with her children. The mother placed her children with a relative, but removed the children from that home a few days later and returned with them to the home of Piper. Based on this conduct, as well as the mother’s confused and disorganized behavior, DFACS obtained custody of the children on June 14, 2004, and placed them in foster care.