Legal Opinion
Callahan v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 19, 1990No. 89-1107PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 disclosed it under intensive counseling. His mother immediately filed a claim against the State under our tort claims act, Iowa…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Urie v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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- Jerrie M. Simmons v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
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3Cited by42 opinions
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