MN v. Department of Children and Families

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence that father had physically abused his stepchild did not support a finding that his natural child was dependent
• requiring that the Department introduce independent evidence establishing a nexus between prior abuse and prospective abuse
• finding that the father’s prior abuse of the mother’s other child who was not his was insufficient to support a finding of prospective abuse or neglect toward the parents’ minor child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).