Nothing compares to the tragedy of what happened to these three little girls, granted.

But there will be some that claim this is the reason why social services must be even more intrusive in each and every home.

Social services had the tools at their disposal, ALREADY. They CHOSE not to act. I think the local social services director should be brought up on charges. The mother is clearly deranged and needs to be in a padded cell, shot up with thorazine. It's the local bureaucrats that were so criminally negligent and indifferent to the plight of these children that I'd like to get my hands on....

And the father. Sigurd makes a good point. If the courts had barred his visitation rights, he should have fought for a neutral 3rd party to go check in on the girls. Were I him, I would take my life in as painful a fashion as I could think, like crawling feet-first into a woodchipper.