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Totally insane that you can be prosecuted now for letting your kids play in a park. If this is truly the whole story, I hope she gets a nice fat settlement and the agency that did this gets gutted.

Unfortunately that's almost never how it works out in real life. The beaurocratic idiots that decided to ruin her life to boost their stats will get promoted and replaced by more idiots.

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IME the people working at CPS tend to lack judgment and have have a controlling and abusive mindset.

I would never let a child near a CPS worker.

Yeah, there should be some measurement tool to evaluate how awful people are in different branches of the government.

I assume very few people who deal with actually abusive parents and their kids (as CPS often does) would come out the other end without severe mental trauma.

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