Somebody sure seems to have got it in for them.

I'm sorry to come back to the story of the teacher and the young girl who ran away together to France, but I think I must be missing something.  He is now in gaol, she is now 16, and clearly wishes to go on seeing him.  She has not, as far as I have been able to ascertain, been taken into care, and indeed it is difficult to see how there could be grounds for doing so, and yet the local authority have apparently decreed that she should not be allowed to see him until she is 18.  By what authority?? Like I say - am I missing something?