Yah. They really screwed this up bad.
now any charge they bring, right, wrong or indifferent, is going to be examined through the lens of "Is this a real charge or is this something that they came up with so they won't seem quite so incompetent as they are" prism.
And the children who NEED protection are going to find that people are hesitating because it's CPS and now CPS looks like nothing but a bunch of screwups.
You almost got that right.
CPS is nothing but a bunch of screwups. The only thing unique here is that they are going to pay for it.