I am unsure if all the children and all the parents did the same thing. See, I am watching this in interest for the wide scope, the guilt by association, etc. If everyone did it then perhaps they had no choice but to do everyone. I don’t know the facts for everyone and certainly we can all agree that a group court hearing didn’t give every family its day in court to refute and defend themselves.
The idea of guilt or innocence has absolutely zero, nada, nothing to do with the safety of children.
If children have no parents willing to step up and take care of them then the state has no other option but to place the children under their control and seek the responsible persons.
In the meanwhile, the state needs to see to the child’s needs.
The guilt or innocence for other criminal issues are secondary yet they have the interest of folks who only want to see the state as evil and want to ignore the state has the welfare of the children as its first duty. Go ahead and change the subject from the children to civil rights but the rest of us see this more clearly.