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Family Law Keyed to Weisberg
In Re N.M.W
Facts
Appellant appeals the adjudication of the juvenile court determining N.M.W. to be a child in need of assistance (CINA) and the subsequent order directing continuing foster care of her. The child in question was born in 1983 and lived with her mother from birth until 1989. The Department of Human Services became involved as early as 1984, filing several abuse reports. The primary concerns were extreme filth in the home, inadequate food in the home, inadequate supervision of the child and refusal of services by the mother. In April, 1989 the child was found in front of a house a block from the mother’s residence. Police were unable to locate her home, and she told authorities at the police station that her mother had told her to go outside. Based on this situation a child protective worker visited the mother’s apartment, where she found a stench of cat feces and urine, the house strewn with garbage, clothing, and other clutter, and a total of eleven to twelve cats living a t the apartment. In the bathroom the cats had defecated along the bathtub and some of the child’s clothing was stuck to the fecal material. The child protective worker returned to the apartment on multiple occasions but always found similar conditions.
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