The court case, DeShaney vs. Winnebago County Social Services took place in 1989. In general, this case is about how the Constitution doesn’t protect children from their parents. It connects to Amendment 14 (forbidding the state from depriving any person from life, liberty, or property without due process of law). The case was made by 4-year-old Joshua’s mother. Joshua was physically abused by his father, and taken in by social services; however he was returned home very soon. He kept getting abused, even to the point of profound mental disability, and the father was sent to prison. Joshua’s mother sued the Department of Social Services in Winnebago, saying they violated the fourteenth amendment and did not look into the case enough (by returning
