State v. Mitchell

BAKER, Justice.

A mother appeals from the judgment and sentence entered upon her conviction for child endangerment. We are asked to decide whether Iowa’s child endangerment statute, which defines child endangerment to include a parent with custody or control over a child cohabiting with a known sex offender, violates the Due Process Clauses and the Equal Protection Clauses of the United States and Iowa Constitutions. We conclude error was not preserved on the due process claim. As for the equal protection claim, under a rational-basis standard, there is a reasonable fit between protecting…