It is the court system to. I was raped as a teenager and they ended up giving my rapist custody (he was convicted), citing that I had the emotional capacity of a teenager. I fought for over a decade. Finally when my daughter was 17 my rapist was charged for sexually assaulting his step daughter, which he admitted to on multiple occasions over the last decade. My daughter was molested to. When she was three it was suspected he had molested her, but her speech was not good enough to determine it. DHHS didn't care because I was in the system as a kid. I'm working on a second masters degree these days, so its not like I'm a drug addict or something.