A district court was within its power to hold a hearing on whether to allow state child protection workers to remove an infant from her foster home to one that, according to a representative for the baby, lacked power and plumbing, the Iowa Supreme Court decided.

The appeal involves a Polk County child born in 2022 and comes after a history of disputes over the child's placement. An attorney for the girl at one point accused the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services of trying to move the child and her siblings to a home with adults “with no electricity or running water who won’t own telephones or use plastic in any manner and believe that days should be spent repenting.”

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