IN RE D.H.

No. 04-0743.

688 N.W.2d 491 (2004)

In the Interest of D.H., a Minor Child, M.H., Father, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

July 28, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amanda M. DeMichelis, of the Bull Law Office, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant-father.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Tabitha Gardner, Assistant Attorney General, John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Jennifer Galloway, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee-State.

Cynthia Tofflemire, Des Moines, for the mother.

Christine Bisignano, Des Moines, for the child.

Considered by VOGEL, P.J., and HECHT and VAITHESWARAN, JJ., but decided en banc.


VAITHESWARAN, J.

Mike is the father of Danae, born in 1990. Danae was adjudicated a child in need of assistance in 1995 based on physical abuse by her mother. She remained a child in need of assistance due to ongoing drug abuse by her mother and a repetition of the physical abuse. As a teenager, Danae disclosed that she had also been abused sexually by her father.

Mike's parental rights to Danae were terminated in 2004. On appeal, Mike does not challenge the...

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