A 20-year-old woman living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, alleges in a lawsuit the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services negligently allowed her to be adopted out of foster care by a convicted felon who sexually abused her for years.

Santee Sioux tribal member Mikalla Winkel filed the suit in connection with childhood abuse she said she suffered in her adoptive home in Sioux City, a hub for Native families from surrounding reservations in Nebraska and South Dakota.

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