Let's put this situation into a parable. Let's say there are several young children whose father is a horrible tyrant who delights in abusing and humiliating them. They spend their whole lives terrified of this bully, and because of it are afraid of everything and everyone. They cannot trust their own father so they learn not to trust anyone.

So when their home gets busted into by child services, they are scared, worried and skeptical. The social workers tell them they are there to save them from their horrible father and that soon they will have a wonderful family life like every kid deserves.

The social workers work hard to gain their trust, because these kids have seen so much before and are incredibly jaded. They know their father, they know his abuses, if nothing else he was predictable. Rather the devil you know...

But then some of the social workers start to do some of the same things their dad did. Abusing them in every way, but quietly, and the other social workers choose to look away. No one in charge stops this.

Could those social workers and the government tell those children:

"Well, what your father did was worse."