ANS and HKS had returned to the US a couple of times, to the Seminole Hard Rock, but they never brought the baby.
I wish we could ask ANS why she buried Daniel in the Bahamas, but since she's dead, we have the testimony of HKS, which goes: 'We intended to make our home here, in the Bahamas and this is where she wanted him buried.
And then we have the testimony of Ford Shelly, who said that he had his attorneys in South Carolina research paternity issues for ANS, and they decided on the Bahamas. So yeah, they fled the US, to the Bahamas, to get the baby out of the range of Larry Birkhead's paternity suit.
Maybe she figured LB would never find out about her there or she could haul butt out before she got caught.
I believe they also fled to the Bahamas to avoid drug testing on the baby after she was born. There really is little doubt that poor baby was born drug addicted. Had ANS given birth in the US and any doctor suspected drug abuse, the authorities must by law be notified. ANS might well have lost her daughter and that would be just the start of her problems.