DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Court documents show the adoptive father of a 16-year-old girl who starved to death will enter a new plea later this month. Forty-seven-year-old Joseph Finn II already has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, child endangerment and neglect or abandonment. His former wife, Nicole Finn, was convicted Dec. 14 of murder and other crimes in the October 2016 death of Natalie Finn.
Medical examiners say Natalie Finn died from emaciation due to denial of critical care.

Polk County court records say the March 21 plea hearing was set Wednesday at the request of Finn’s lawyers. The records don’t say whether a deal with prosecutors has been reached.

Red Oak Police report making two arrests late Wednesday morning. 37-year old Rose Amber Lopez, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 11:16-a.m., after Red Oak Police, assisted by Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies, responded to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, where Lopez was allegedly making “A loud and raucous noise,” causing hospital occupants “unreasonable distress.” She was charged with Disorderly Conduct and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where bond was set at $300.

While on that call, and at about the same time, Red Oak Police and Montgomery County Deputies could hear a male yelling. The noise lead officers and deputies to the 300 block of E. Valley Street, where 24-year old Jesse Dean Uhlmann, of Red Oak, was located, and subsequently arrested for Serious Domestic Abuse Assault. Uhlmann was being held in the Montgomery County Jail without bond.