Dragonlady
Designing Woman
Which makes it a wonder that so many of their agents or "case workers" spend so much time tracking down malicious gossip, and are so intrusive to people's lives when they do so. In the rare cases in which they do pull a child out of a truly abusive home, the child is often placed with a foster family just as abusive, if not more so.
Is the ten year old rape victim still living with the mother that gave her to the rapist? Since that is what they "spend their time dealing with?"
There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that the mother "gave" her child to the rapist, and given that she took the child to the doctor suspecting abuse, and she filed the police report of her daughter's rape, and pointed them to her boyfriend, it is entirely possible she knew nothing about this.
The first thing abuser's do is threaten the child if she should tell. One little girl told NO ONE about the abuse for years. Her abuser threatened to kill her parents if she told, and she believed him.