CALLAHAN v. STATE

No. 89-1107.

464 N.W.2d 268 (1990)

Julie CALLAHAN, Individually and as Natural Mother and Next Friend of Matthew Althaus, A Minor, Appellants, v. STATE of Iowa, C.J. Giangreco, Norman Devine, and Robert Redden, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Spellman of Spellman, Spellman, Spellman, Spellman, Kealhofer & Spellman, Perry, for appellants.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., John R. Perkins, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Joanne Moeller, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Considered en banc.


LARSON, Justice.

Four-year-old Matthew Althaus, deaf and cerebral palsied, entered the Iowa School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs in 1981. From that time until he left ISD at the age of seven, Matthew was physically and sexually abused by the staff and older students, according to his petition. Despite substantial efforts by Matthew's mother, Julie, to identify the cause of his deviant sexual behavior at home, she did not discover the abuse until 1988, when Matthew...

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