Expected Hippo Bean not returned when there is an Image Link inside a Content Blocks

@HippoEssentialsGenerated(internalName = "ABC:images", allowModifications = false)
public List<HippoBean> getImages() {
    return getChildBeansByName("ABC:images", HippoBean.class);
}

/**
 * The method return an bean of the allowed types or null.
 *
 * Allowed types are InstagramImage and Image (Image Link)
 */
public HippoBean getListicleItemImage() {
    HippoBean image = getOnlyChild(getImages());
    if (image instanceof HippoFacetSelect) {
        try {
            //TODO: This is a workaround to an issue found in the CMS when a content block is composed of Image Links
            return RequestContextProvider.get().getQueryManager()
                    .createQuery(RequestContextProvider.get().getSession().getNodeByIdentifier(
                            image.getSingleProperty("hippo:docbase"))).execute().getHippoBeans().nextHippoBean();
        } catch (QueryException | RepositoryException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return image;
}