Hearing or reading about sexual abuse and exploitation is one thing, but documenting it sufficiently for legal action is quite another--and taking the children out of harm's way, and keeping them out of harm's way, is another still.

It is far from clear that the authorities have responded to this problem in a constructive way--Removing kids from their home environment and placing them in Foster Care often actually increases their risk of harm.

>National data on child abuse fatalities show that a child is nearly twice as likely to die of abuse >in foster care as in the general population.

>A study of reported abuse in Baltimore, found the rate of "substantiated" cases of sexual abuse >in foster care more than four times higher than the rate in the general population.[2] Using the >same methodology, an Indiana study found three times more physical abuse and twice the rate >of sexual abuse in foster homes than in the general population. In group homes there was >more than ten times the rate of physical abuse and more than 28 times the rate of sexual >abuse as in the general population[2], in part because so many children in the homes abused >each other.

From this paper from the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform Foster Care is Not Safe

I don't know what the "right" thing to do here is, but I have a hard time imagining that this Waco-style cowboy invasion is going to benefit anyone.