Foster placements in Nobles County didn t change much during 2020, even with pandemic Written By: Leah Ward | 8:00 pm, May 14, 2021
WORTHINGTON May is National Foster Care Month, and this year there s much to celebrate namely, the volunteer foster families who take in children in need throughout Nobles County.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit early last year and businesses, schools and government offices closed their doors, social workers with Nobles County Community Services braced for impact, explained Family & Children’s Social Service Supervisor Beth Mahoney and Social Worker Danette Bechler.
With COVID cases climbing and unknown exposure rates, they expected foster parents to feel nervous about taking in new children, so they set up a facility with sleeping bags and cribs, in case foster children needed somewhere to go.
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WORTHINGTON Four years of supervised probation was ordered Wednesday in a criminal case that resulted in the conviction of a former Worthington resident of domestic abuse.
Chol Pael, 40, now of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was arrested in August after a person reported that Pael had assaulted them with a shovel. Pael had previously had an order for protection (OFP) ordered against him pertaining to the same victim. He was charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, domestic abuse consisting of knowingly violating an OFP while being in possession of a dangerous weapon and misdemeanor domestic assault.