Dakota Levi Stevens loved doing stuff in nature, said his former foster dad, Hayden Hetzel.
A picture taken in the fall, during the week or so after Dakota returned to Hetzel’s household after being a foster child there from 2019 to 2021, shows him holding a snail. In another one, the boy, 10, clasped a giant mushroom.Hetzel tried twice to adopt Dakota.
The Porter County Sheriff’s Office has said little about the case, other than a short statement released Tuesday night. That said the department’s detective bureau was investigating the death of a 10-year-old. “Our entire staff is heartbroken by this news. DCS works with stakeholders and partners across the state to investigate the death of a child any time there is suspected abuse or neglect and will take the appropriate action,” Brian Heinemann, deputy director of communications for DCS, said in an email Wednesday afternoon.
After Dakota and his sister were moved between family and multiple foster homes, the two were split up and his sister was eventually adopted. Dakota also was in and out of a mental health facility for children, according to Mills and Hetzel, who believe he may have been in that facility before he was moved to the foster home in Liberty Township.
That changed when Dakota’s supporters started flooding social media on Tuesday with posts about his death.
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