Read the transcript. No one in that room wanted the children to go to CV—even the mother (overheard by the judge) asked the children to go to lunch with their father. The father has always asked the judge not to take this step.
All that the children had to do was to have lunch with their father in the courthouse cafeteria and behave like decent human beings to him. Each of the children refused independently. The judge made her comments about CV in an attempt to let them know what they were choosing when they decided against going downstairs and acting like decent human beings sith their father for an hour.
The children can get out any time by resuming a relationship with their father.
It seems like the judge has tried everything for quite some time to get the children to see their father, and everything has failed.
YOU WILL OBEY OR BE LOCKED UP!
And if the kids refuse to obey the judge?
Are you ok with a 9 yr old being taken from her mother and locked up for 9 years for refusing to talk to her father?
As noted in the transcript...the mother DID talk to the kids and ask them to have lunch with thier father....the KIDS refused.
So lock em up?