Supervised visit, but the social worker let the kids go ahead into the house and was barred from entering, went and called the BOSS to report smelling gas...
Why would this idiot let the kids out of his control, and why would the first call be to the boss, rather than 911???
Prayers for the children, and his wife, and I hope the man finds the justice he deserves.
It may be that the social worker was a woman. But whatever the situation the man should have seen the children, if at all, in a supervised setting where he had not control and it could be verified he had no weapon. The social worker may have been in shock, and the boss could probably do a better job of mobilizing help.
The answers to all of your questions are inherent in the term “social worker” and the programming involved in being one.
You or I — THINKING people — would have done differently, but that norm doesn’t apply to individuals operating under the influence of a system that attempts to apply a programmatic “if - then - else” analysis to utterly illogical situations. To call that “psychopathy” is too kind.