Watching the show, I was shocked that they even charged the social workers. I was so surprised that the District Attorney even thought to take it that far, but as I watched and got more and more info with every episode, the social workers should've gotten a sentence and gone in front of a jury.

Social Workers know their job before they even knock on the door. They know to check on the kid's condition, check the house, etc. You're telling me that not one, not two, but FOUR social workers, never took Gabriel away and they were lazy when it came to their job. The Fernandez family got hotline after hotline and that was never a red flag to them? They thought to themselves, "Maybe there is something going on. Maybe the parents are hiding something from me." If I was a social worker, and someone had hotlined that a kid had burns on his neck, had chunks of hair missing, etc. you bet I'd be investigating that case thoroughly the first time it came around.

Even later in the show, you see another social who is going to a house to check on a 5-month-old baby because the foster mom got a hotline, come to find out that the baby was living in perfect condition and had nothing wrong with her living space, but it was obvious that the social worker was doing her job properly and investigated like she was supposed to. The social workers that were a part of Gabriel's case, DID NOT do their job properly. Pearl and her boyfriend couldn't even cover up the scene correctly when they KNEW that the paramedics were coming. You know there had to be things that were on the floor or in the house when they didn't know that the social workers were coming.

Moral of the story, the social workers were lazy and it will be very hard for them to find a job at another company because they will forever have this case in their background. An 8-year-old boy's death would've been prevented if the social workers would've done their job correctly and gave Gabriel their all.