Bear v. Woodward State Hospital School

LARSON, Justice.

In 1989 we held that Barry Bear, then eleven, was a child in need of assistance under Iowa Code chapter 232 (1987) because of his parents’ refusal to send him to school. In re B.B., 440 N.W.2d 594 (Iowa 1989). Four years later, we held that he was a child in need of assistance because of his mother’s obsession with his health and his father’s failure to intervene on Barry’s behalf. We ordered Barry to be placed in foster care. In re B.B., 500 N.W.2d 9 (Iowa 1993). In June 1995 Barry, seventeen by then, was adjudicated to be retarded. 1 He was committed to the Woodward State…