Unfortunately, their heart doesn’t seem to bleed for the child. They always coddle the dysfunctional adults - and when the child ends up dead, it’s just an “oops” moment. And the judges who award custody are guilty too.
I have family in LE and I have heard these stories all too often.
We lived the children’s service nightmare for four years after my sisters death in a suspicious car accident. She left a three year old and psycho boyfriend.......after tens of thousands of dollars, countless court room hours,hundreds of hours of devastating testimony, we prevailed. Lies after lies from children services protecting a man who years later shot a person in the back seven times and eventually died in prison for first degree murder. It is a ruthless system and children rarely win, unless there is a family with means willing to pay the price.