The DCF represents children and their families, not only the children. The judge is not a child advocate. Because if he was, he's not a judge. He has to be fair to everyone. He works as a guardian ad litem, investigating children's lives, and he makes sure that they're in a safe place with everything they need.
Hector goes above and beyond that.
He goes to the home. He's traveled counties. Casado is in the courthouse almost every day. He gets around with crutches because a virus crippled him during his 20 years of missionary work in Central America. Judge Jack Singbush said that Casado isn't just helping the kids, he's helping the judges.