Lawsuit and counterclaim involving Orchard Place are settled

By: Clark Kauffman

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: March 31, 2026

Words: 363

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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A lawsuit and counterclaim involving allegations of improper conduct by a worker at an Iowa treatment center for adolescents have been settled out of court.

The initial lawsuit, filed by Hayley Heineman, alleged that in 2019, while she was living at Des Moines’ Orchard Place, a residential treatment facility for adolescents, she and an employee, Cody Lee Loew, “engaged in sexual, and impermissible non-sexual, communications through texts, phone calls, and Snapchat messages” — a …

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