Father of a girl cuts girls hair after she gets highlights and he disapproves

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A while back I heard about a girl who had all of her hair chopped off by her father and stepmother when they disagreed with the highlights her mother let her get. I don't care who you are or if you disapprove going as far as cutting them all off is cruel if they had an issue they should have taken it up with the mother. What they did was horrible. The daughter no longer wanted anything to do with her father and both the father and stepmother were being investigated for child abuse. I was rereading this recently and I found out that it actually happened in the same county I live in. I went a step further and looked up the daughter on FB and saw that both of my older nieces were friends with her and yet another step further looked up the dad and everything clicked. I know the stepmother! I went to school with her and worked with her one summer for tractor pulls here. We had some mutual friends and my ex SIL is really good friends with her. I thought the girl in the picture they had in the articles looked familiar but didn't realize she worked for the fire department in the town over. Not only do I know this girl my son plays with her sons sometimes because their grandmother lives in the apartment behind us. I actually wonder if she is raising them after all of this but I am unsure but they're always outside playing. Their apartment building is just behind ours and my son plays with them sometimes when they're outside. I didn't even realize any of this until about twenty minutes ago. I can't believe she'd do something like that. I remember in the article when the mother confronted them they said "actions have consequences" and they later paid a lot of consequences by being suspended and the dad losing all custody of his daughter. Looking back I can't see how she thinks she has the room to know what is morally right or wrong knowing the kinds of things she did when we were younger. She always seemed on the wild side but not downright mean. Maybe the father had more to do with it I don't know. I just know that knowing the things she did when she was younger she should have had some empathy. This made national outcry here which surprises me. I heard about it but it never occurred to me I'd know anyone involved. I am glad the girl is happy now. It's sad that her dad put such a rift between them and I hope he has learned from this experience and can eventually mend his relationship. I hope he realized how wrong he was. He completely tore down her self-esteem. It may just be hair but at thirteen that's traumatic.