I really think they intended to use the children as leverage- thinking once they took the children everyone would crumble and start tell tales against each other and producing evidence. I talked today to a friend of mine that used to work for CPS here in NM and she told me flat out she quit and started working in the section that worked with elderly assistance because CPS was doing things far beyond what was intended when they were given power to help children. She also thinks the children were all taken for leverage to find out what was going on.
I could be very wrong and I hope I am wrong- because CPS does have a lot of power- which they are supposed to use if a child is in immediate danger. I don’t want them using their awesome power for other purposes. I don’t see anyway that anyone thought ALL of the children were in immediate danger- so I wonder.
I would not doubt that at all.
The end justifies the means when you have already decided someone is guilty.