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INTEREST OF D.D.

No. 20-0330.

955 N.W.2d 186 (2021)

In the INTEREST OF D.D., Minor Child. E.D., Father, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed February 19, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trent A. Henkelvig (argued) of Henkelvig Law, Danville, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Mary A. Triick (argued), Assistant Attorney General, and Erin Stensvaag , Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Diana L. Miller (argued) of Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C., Mt. Pleasant, attorney for minor child.

Patrick Brau of Brau Law Office, Mt. Pleasant, guardian ad litem for minor child.

McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Appel, Waterman, and Oxley, JJ., joined. Christensen, C.J., filed a special concurrence. Mansfield, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which McDonald, J., joined.

A seven-year-old girl was sexually abused by her stepfather. The State initiated a child-in-need-of-assistance proceeding, and the juvenile court removed the girl from the home. The court later permitted the girl to return to the home only after the stepfather had been forbidden from living there. But the girl's mother—...

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