I work in social services and this is not as bad as it sounds though I am not defending the system by any means.

The adult children have gone to an assisted living center to assess what they need for further care. This is standard treatment and is not permanent. Once they establish the level of care each adult needs, they will address the case as a whole with the adults most likely moving to a special "group home" style setting.

The children are in foster care but it is not regular foster care. Each state is different but all have levels of care. Where I am, the foster parents who would take in children who were in horrific situations are retired counselors and therapists. They only take in children who have seen the worst of the worst and need intensive care. This is done because not only is there abuse but there is also not proper mental progression and likely regression to toddler or even animalistic behaviors. Normal people cannot deal with this type of behavior and it is trying even for the most experienced people at times.

The children are with people who can properly care for them and also help build the case against the parents. They will gently interview them without the children realizing it over several months and are able to make clinical notes which will then be admitted to court to be used in the case against the parents. The people caring for these children are not your average foster parents. They are the best of the best.

This family will be properly looked after by professionals who have decades of experience. Everyone working their case is on their side. This is the exact opposite for other children who get placed with shit foster parents are are horribly mistreated. It makes me sick to think that every care is not treated the way this case is being treated. The difference I see in the level of care between criminal abuse cases where the child is taken away and placed with clinical foster parents and the cases where shit parents lose their kids and those kids get placed with whoever is disgusting. Truly horrific in the extremes regarding the care they receive.

On another note, the fact that the parents ran a registered "school" out of their home is interesting. That would require inspections and audits where I am. I want to know of those are required in California and if they were done. Anyone know what religion/cult they belong to? I have seen a few cases in my career that remind me of this case and it may lead back to a cult like religion and leader.

Again, not defending foster or state care, it is an awful system full of abuse and horror stories. It is an extreme. Some of the most wonderful people I have ever met are foster parents and some people I would not trust with house plants are also foster parens. Complaints against them, even by officials are not followed up on. There are not enough good parents and then one shit foster parent is one of many.

The cases I have worked and know of that have numerous kids involved for the same family end up with the state purchasing homes and setting up a group home just for that one family to keep them together though the younger ones may be able to adapt better but will be kept together.