I haven't read anything yet about welfare fraud, so am not sure how they would go about that. I didn't work in texas so don't know the laws. In Va, if a father was in the home, a woman couldn't get ADC, but that was a long time ago, and the laws may be totally different now.
I am trying to remember whether we ever took one child and left others, and one case does spring to mind. We had three of the oldest children in foster care, while the two youngest remained.
Since the alleged abuse was of a sexual nature, and involved only a teenage girl, a case could be made for leaving the small children with the mothers because of the trauma involved in separation. Normally with physical abuse, you need some evidence-- bruises, broken bones, witnesses, and as far as I know, there was none of this. The basic accusation was the forced marriage and rape of a minor. You could limit your investigation to that age range until you could establish more facts (which seem sorely missing at the moment) and then move on the rest, if necessary.
Ideally, children should stay with the mother, when it is at all feasible- which I am starting to think could have been. |
