The CAS has been insisting that she could harm her children if the children were not immediately taken away from her. This type of hypothetical claims are used too often with little analysis and usually hard to prove wrong by its nature, especially when made by an institution with power. But in this case the mom, by the unfortunate means of taking her own life under the tremendous pressure from the CAS, silently vendicated herself. By CAS's logic, she could have easily bring the children with her on that night. She didn't because it was never in her mind. It was simply imposed on her by some ignorant bureaucrats and used by some to blame the victim.