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DES MOINES -- A South Dakota woman is suing the State of Iowa for allegedly placing her in a foster home with a convict who sexually assaulted her. Mikalla Starr Winkel, 20, of Sioux Falls, is suing ...

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - A South Dakota woman is suing the State of Iowa for allegedly placing her in a foster home with a convict who sexually assaulted her. Mikalla Starr Winkel, ...

“Being in foster care, I did not have the best foster parents,” Bethany Neubath-Rios, a former foster child. “I grew up in a very chaotic, not the safest, foster home. It feels like a piece of you is ...

POLK COUNTY, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - A South Dakota woman is suing the State of Iowa for allegedly placing her in a foster home with a convict who sexually assaulted her. Mikalla Starr Winkel, ...