Family to Care for 6 Children in Idaho Case

SANDPOINT, Idaho — A suitable foster family has been found for six children who remain hospitalized after holing up in their home in a five-day standoff with police, officials said Wednesday.

The family has met with the children and agreed to take all six, said Michele Britton of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. It was not immediately known when the children would be released from the hospital.

Earlier reports that the state had found friends of the family who could immediately house the children proved premature, Britton said.

The arrest of their mother last week prompted the children to hole up in their ramshackle rural home, keeping officials at bay with the help of their 27 dogs. The mother, JoAnn Dunn McGuckin, remains in the Bonner County Jail.