I need your thoughts

As I have posted before my mom has my sisters two children in her care. They are three and five. Child abuse case pending against my sister. Chances are she will never get her stuff together and get the kids back. Well when all this happened they of course had to notify their father who has not seen the children in over 18 months nor paid child support (i know seperate issue). Anyways he showed up at the hearing with a court appointed lawyer and said he wanted the kids. He by the way is worse then my sister and she is pretty bad. Well we could never prove anything against him. The Judge said at one of the hearing to my mother that she was appalled at all of the flase allegations against their father (again they are not false we just could not prove anything). Well he had to go through a homestudy and DCF is recommending the children stay with my mom. Thank God! Their fragile little states of mind will just be ruined if they go back to their father. He would never be able to handle the behavior issues etc these kids have not to mention it would kill them not to be able to see us and my mom. My other two sisters and my mom and I have all raised these kids together because my sister could never get it together. They are our lives. So the Judge hates my mom. In your opinoin does the Judge usually go with DCF's recommendation? The counselors & DCF are going to recommend the kids stay with my mom. Will the Judge rule otherwise? By the way the kids still do not have GAL. Still waiting for them to get one. Everyone has a lawyer except the kids. The ones who need one most. Any thoughts on what the Judge will do? It is just a big huge mess. I love these kids and cannot imagine what will happen if they end up with their father or their mother for that matter.