It still doesn't make any sense. You have a women who has provably given birth to children that don't share her DNA, and who is bringing them up as her children.
Taking them away solves nothing. In fact, it's inhuman to the point of insanity. It's also financially nonsensical, since the cost of children in care is dramatically higher than social assistance, and quite likely to get worse (because of the impact on the kids of being torn from their mother).
A system not operated by idiots would have suggested a quick and cheap compromise, such as making the kids legally hers by adoption.
There was never any evidence that she stole the kids, or that they had ever belonged to anybody else. In fact, there was a vast amount of reliable, historical evidence that they were her kids.
The _only_ evidence to the contrary turned out to be wrong, and it was proven wrong when she was observed giving birth.
Otherwise, even if she had stolen the kids, the government action was insane. As I already pointed out, it costs social services a lot more to break up a functioning family than it costs to provide enough support to keep it together.
Taking them away solves nothing. In fact, it's inhuman to the point of insanity. It's also financially nonsensical, since the cost of children in care is dramatically higher than social assistance, and quite likely to get worse (because of the impact on the kids of being torn from their mother).
A system not operated by idiots would have suggested a quick and cheap compromise, such as making the kids legally hers by adoption.