Don't laugh. Stranger things have happened in the hallowed halls of "justice."
Remember the day care workers who were convicted of taking children on airplane trips to remote desert locations where they were exposed to satanic rituals, involved in ghastly sexual perversions, and returned to the day care center with nary a hair out of place, in time to be picked up by their mothers at the end of the day.
I would NOT be totally shocked if your actual scenario, or one just like it, were to be tried by these scumbags.
It would make a crazy (operative word) kind of sense, wouldn't it? NOTHING would surprise at this point.