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Judge authorizes removal of 11-year-old after local shelters exhausted; all three children to be removed if no shelter is available
Summary
After finding that community and shelter resources were exhausted, a High Plains judge authorized the legal removal of the oldest child in a family facing imminent street homelessness and ordered that all three children may be removed if Faith City Mission cannot house the mother with the two younger children.
A presiding judge in the High Plains Child Protection Court on Oct. 28, 2025, authorized the legal removal of an 11-year-old child after Department staff testified that local shelter and community resources were exhausted and the family faced imminent street homelessness.
The judge, speaking during an ex parte hearing convened on short notice, said the decision was not based on abuse or neglect but on an immediate danger to the children's physical health caused by exposure if they were left to sleep outdoors in late October. "I find that the department has made all reasonable efforts to avoid the removal of 1 or all of the children,"…
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