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In order to get out from under their thumb, she could ask that her probation be revoked and just do her jail time. Then she won't have to continue to fight them.

But as far as the kids go, she and her husband have dug a Brian and Ruth Christine-sized hole. They will be facing a CHIPs petition, if they haven't already, and loss of custody of the children, if the state doesn't have legal custody of the children already.

I have a very strong feeling that these people are getting very bad advice from this advocacy group, and both she and her husband are going to end up in prison if they keep going this way. That is their choice, but I can't say as I didn't warn them.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

-H. L. Mencken.