From what I read in other articles, he called the girl "his girlfriend's daughter" (referring to Amanda as his girlfriend). What mom would investigate beyond that? Ariel apparently liked kids and was good with them. No reason to be suspicious that he was entertaining the little one for his GF while she was "shopping" or whatever convenient excuse there was at the moment.
Or are we just looking for as many people as possible to blame for the next few weeks in this story? Cleveland PD is already clearly going to get a lot of Heck for not getting this one sooner.
So she’s taking care of the girlfriend’s daughter and never met the girlfriend and never wanted to???
And that little 6 year old never gave her a clue about where she really lived — about the house of horrors???
The best she can claim is willful ignorance.