We do not know why the other 4 children were removed. Much speculation, but we don't know.
We don't know why SS and the police were so high profile in their determination to locate CM and MG.
We cannot possibly know whether Victoria would have been safe had the car not caught fire and they had successfully escaped.
Undoubtedly the high profile search influenced their decision to go off grid (CM said as much in her police interview) but that was a decision, a choice, and like the judgement of Solomon it could be argued that at the point it became impossible to care for a tiny baby off grid that truly caring parents would have made a different decision. As CM also says she considered.
Also, they took off on ill-advised journeys without clothes for Victoria (presumably lost in the fire) before they knew they were at a centre of a media storm.
For those who have had bad experiences with SS, this is obviously triggering. But SS can't win. The majority of cases we hear about are where they are blamed for not intervening when some poor child has died as a result of cruelty or neglect. I have been involved with projects for and with Care Leavers and children in foster care, and their experiences and aftermath match what I see in the families of 5 friends and acquaintances who adopted children from care: adoption from birth would have helped prevent attachment disorder (after 2 years of supporting a drug addled mother to continue care and then a series of foster placements), from starvation (that the children aged 5 and 7 clearly remembered), from being thrown from a 2nd storey window aged 6, etc.
We just don't know.
