Mindi has never harmed her daughter and is capably raising a son, but authorities took her daughter under a concept sometimes called “predictive neglect”
Seth Freed Wessler (Special To ProPublica)
This story was co-published withThe Daily Beast. In August 2009, Mindi, a 25-year-old struggling new parent, experienced what doctors later concluded was a psychotic episode. She had been staying in a cousin\'s spare basement room in De Soto, Kansas, while trying get on her feet after an unexpected pregnancy and an abusive relationship. She\'d been depressed since her daughter was born and was becoming increasingly distrustful of her relatives.
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