BLACKWELL, Judge.
Following an evidentiary hearing, the juvenile court determined that C.B., a minor child, is deprived. The father of the child appeals, contending that the juvenile court erred at the evidentiary hearing by admitting hearsay evidence and by taking judicial notice of prior proceedings and orders concerning the same child without, the father says, giving him sufficient notice of its intent to do so. The father also claims that insufficient evidence was adduced at the hearing to sustain the finding of deprivation. The record on appeal, however, does not reveal any reversible error, and for this reason, we affirm.
1. We turn first to the contention that the juvenile court erred at the hearing by admitting hearsay evidence. The father made several objections at the hearing, including some on hearsay grounds, and many of these objections were sustained by the juvenile court. Although a few objections were overruled, the father does not specify the overruling of any particular objection as error. Instead, the father complains on appeal that the juvenile court allowed a case worker employed with the Cherokee County Department of Family and Children Services (DFACS) to testify about facts of which her knowledge was based exclusively, the father claims, upon her review of records contained in a DFACS case file. But the father made no timely objection to this testimony below, and because he did not, he failed to preserve any error in admitting the testimony for our review. See In the Interest of A.K., 272 Ga.App. 429, 435(1)(b), 612 S.E.2d 581 (2005); In the Interest of H.D.M., 241 Ga.App. 805, 808(2), 527 S.E.2d 633 (2000). For this reason, the contention that the juvenile court erred at the hearing by admitting hearsay evidence affords no basis for us to reverse the decision below.
The father says that, even if he failed to preserve the admission of hearsay evidence for review on appeal by a timely objection below, hearsay has no probative value, and we, therefore, cannot consider it when we assess whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain a finding of deprivation. That may be true enough, see In the Interest of J.C., 242 Ga. 737, 740(3), 251 S.E.2d 299 (1978), but it does not help the father here. From our review of the record, whether most of the testimony about which the father complains is, in fact, hearsay is uncertain.
2. We turn next to the contention that the juvenile court improperly took judicial notice of prior proceedings and orders concerning C.B. The father says that the juvenile court could not properly take judicial notice of these prior proceedings and orders because it did not afford him notice of its intent to do so and an opportunity to object. But the written order from which this appeal was taken clearly makes reference to the prior proceedings and orders, and this order reflects that the father consented to its form several days before the judge signed it.
3. We turn finally to the contention that the evidence adduced at the evidentiary hearing is insufficient to sustain the finding of deprivation. Proof of deprivation must be clear and convincing, and on appeal, we ask whether any reasonable trier of fact could have found such proof of deprivation, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the findings of the juvenile court below. See In the Interest of R.M., 276 Ga.App. 707, 707, 624 S.E.2d 182 (2005). According to our statutes, a child is deprived if he is "without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for the child's physical, mental, or emotional health or morals." OCGA § 15-11-2(8)(A). A finding of deprivation also requires proof that the circumstances amounting to deprivation "resulted from unfitness on the part of the parent, that is, either intentional or unintentional misconduct resulting in the abuse or neglect of the child or by what is tantamount to physical or mental incapability to care for the child." R.M., 276 Ga.App. at 715, 624 S.E.2d 182 (citation and punctuation omitted). In this case, the juvenile court found that the mother presented a danger to C.B. and that the father deprived C.B. by failing to protect him from his mother. We think the evidence is sufficient to sustain these findings.
We think the evidence also is sufficient to sustain the finding that the father was permitting the mother to have contact with C.B., despite the danger that she presented to the child. In December 2009, the juvenile court had awarded the father custody of C.B., subject to the condition that the father keep C.B. from his mother. The father understood this condition and acknowledged it. Notwithstanding the order that C.B. be kept from his mother, a manager of the mobile home park in which the father lives testified at the hearing that, soon after the mother was released from jail in January 2010, he saw C.B. in the care of the mother at the father's mobile home. Another manager of the same park testified that, on the date of the hearing, the mother was present at the park and that she had seen the mother with the children at the home of the father on several occasions. Finally, the father testified at the hearing, in which he denied that he had spoken with the mother since C.B. was born, denied that the mother had been at his home in the presence of C.B., and denied that the mother had been at his home at all since C.B. was born, except on one occasion after C.B. was removed from his home. Given the conflicts in the testimony, the juvenile court was entitled to conclude, as it did, that the father was dishonest in his testimony, and the court further was authorized to infer from his dishonesty that, in fact, the father had permitted C.B. to have contact with his mother and that the father put the interests of the mother ahead of the best interest of C.B. See Ferguson v. State, 307 Ga.App. 232, 234(1), 704 S.E.2d 470 (2010).
We have said before that "a parent's failure to protect a child from harm is sufficient to authorize a finding that the child is deprived on account of a lack of proper parental care or control." In the Interest of L.A.T., 291 Ga.App. 312, 315, 661 S.E.2d 679 (2008). Accordingly, we have held in several cases that evidence of exposure to a dangerous person sustains a finding of deprivation. See, e.g., id. (mother's continuing cohabitation with boyfriend, despite allegations that he had sexually abused child, supported finding of deprivation); In the Interest of A.S., 285 Ga.App. 563, 567, 646 S.E.2d 756 (2007) (mother allowing child to have contact with her ex-boyfriend, which violated terms of child safety plan, authorized finding of deprivation);
Judgment affirmed.
BARNES, P.J., and DILLARD, J., concur.