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PEOPLE IN INTEREST OF M.W.

No. 14691.

374 N.W.2d 889 (1985)

The PEOPLE of the State of South Dakota In the Interest of M.W. a/k/a M.V.G., a Child, and Concerning S.W., S.V.G., and J.V.G., Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided September 25, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry L. Pechota of Finch & Viken, Rapid City, for appellant-respondent Mother/Stepfather.

Stanley E. Whiting of Day, Grossenburg & Whiting, Winner, for appellee Natural Father.

Janice Godtland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for appellee State of S.D.; Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief.

MORGAN, Justice.

This appeal arises from the trial court's adjudication that M.W. is a dependent and neglected child and the subsequent dispositional decree under which custody of M.W. was changed from S.V.G. (mother) to S.W. (father), and we affirm.

On January 30, 1984, mother called to the attention of school authorities the large number of bruises on M.W., which mother had found while bathing her. She suggested that M.W. had sustained the bruises while...

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