They did adopt her. The adoption was overturned when the dad-— who never consented to the adoption — got his prison sentence was commuted.
It's a sad story. Someone told me they had to quit the State Youth Authority in disgust over these kinds of injustices and abuses.
Unless the feds are mucked up in it, the people of a state have direct power to deal with, correct, and/or overturn wrongful state programs. IMO, the best laws and government are the least laws and government. But it’s up to the people of each state to decide that.
The people of our great country need to wake up out of their death-sleep and assert their rights and freedoms as owners of their own destinies and shake off federal AND state governmental abuse.