Criminal law is one thing.
Child custody and protection from abuse is something entirely different.
It is entirely possible to lose your kids without EVER being convicted of a crime.
“Child custody and protection from abuse is something entirely different”
Good point about child abuse! But at some point child abuse has to be criminal, and this is serious mental abuse of very young girls.
It appears that the District Attorney’s office made a technical error and prosecuted the father under the wrong law (”public indecency?”). The father has not been acquitted of anything, and still can be prosecuted.