In re E.A.
Annotate this CaseSix days after premature twins were born, the Department of Health and Human Services petitioned for a child protection order, alleging that the twins were in circumstances of immediate risk of serious harm based on Mother’s infliction of fatal injuries to the parents’ one-year-old adopted son and Father’s infliction of serious bruising to the son two days before his death. The district court concluded that the twins would be in circumstances of jeopardy to their health and welfare if returned to the custody of their parents and found aggravated factors as to both Mother and Father. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court did err when it found aggravating factors as to Father or when it admitted an autopsy report of the parents’ son.
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