I got to thinking about that. The article said that while she was in the 4th grade and with her grandparents they ran into her mother while they were out eating. That the mother then took it to court.
Well, it takes some time to get lawyers and court dates. There's a good chance that she lived with her mother for 5th and 6th grade making her a bit older, and she is going to be 20 in June, so she might have been 14, which isn't that unheard of.
Good lord, woman. This isn't Salem.