MATTER OF BEAR

No. 97-15.

576 N.W.2d 303 (1998)

In the Matter of Barry BEAR, Alleged to be Mentally Retarded. Barry BEAR, Archie Bear, Jr., and Anna Bear, Appellants, v. WOODWARD STATE HOSPITAL SCHOOL, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed March 25, 1998


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Staudt of Staudt Law Office, Boone, for appellants.

Jim P. Robbins, County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, CARTER, NEUMAN, and TERNUS, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

In 1989 we held that Barry Bear, then eleven, was a child in need of assistance under Iowa Code chapter 232 (1987) because of his parents' refusal to send him to school. In re B.B., 440 N.W.2d 594 (Iowa 1989). Four years later, we held that he was a child in need of assistance because of his mother's obsession with his health and his father's failure to intervene on Barry's behalf. We ordered Barry to be...

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