The state wanted to make it look like they are being compassionate. Woopee, they released 12 kids under strict scrutiny. Oh, well, those 12 kids are better off now.
I think the action makes TX CPS look bad, though, because they have just admitted that those 12 kids were not being abused by their parents.
If you are seriously interested in the truth, I believe you need to watch this video before making any further comments.
http://www.lhvm.org/vid_lvp.htm
CPS never alleged that any specific parents were directly abusing their own children, but rather that the parents were condoning the abuse of adolescent girls and training all the boys and girls to believe that it was appropriate for adolescent girls to "marry" older men upon the command of the "prophet". Needless to say, the "prophet" has been convicted of a sex crime involving a minor and is currently on trial for additional sex crimes involving minors. All the parents were teaching their children to worship this prophet and follow all his orders unquestioningly, and the proof was his framed portrait hanging in all the homes and the schoolrooms.
As CPS identifies parents and matches them to children, and learns about the individuals in various families, it's perfectly appropriate to start allowing some parents to live with their children. Allowing them to go back to the ranch, which is essentially one big shrine to the "prophet", have been designed and built to his precise specifications, and being inhabited only by people who worship this "prophet", would clearly be resuming the brainwashing to worship this child sex convict. That would NOT be appropriate. Hopefully, some of the families will take advantage of the experience of living outside the control of the cult, to figure out that they were all (including the adults) being abused by the cult leaders, and decide not to rejoin it.