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With what I’ve found, I doubt there was money involved. But I’m also quite certain this wasn’t an evangelical christian family trying to save the child from foster care. Looks more like some ethnic thing to me.

They sound like gypsies or something. However, I see nothing in your new information that justifies the government coming in at all. Certainly, a 7 year old not being able to read is not justification for taking a child, regardless of how we all hate illiteracy (and by the way, putting the kid in public school is no guarantee that she'll learn to read either). It still sounds like the family decided to retrieve the girl from strangers, and are only outlaws because of that act. The ironic thing is that if the government weren't hellbent on snatching this kid from the family, they wouldn't have been afraid to put in her in public school.

I can find nothing from 2003 which would explain why the 1-year-old was taken from the mother’s mother (the child’s grandmother), and put in foster care.

However, the story does suggest there was arrangements made, because the three aunts (sisters of the mother) had a formal visitation arrangement, and they took the kid to Chuck E Cheese, at which point they took off with the 1-year-old without permission.

Obviously they have justification for getting the now 7-year-old from a person of unknown origin, unrelated to the child, and with no legal right to the child. The fact that the child was being hidden in a bathroom, and that the child not only wasn’t allowed to attend school, but wasn’t taught to read by the age of 7, only reinforces the action.

Even if the 7-year-old was being perfectly cared for and trained, the person in possession of the child had no legal right to the child, and was no relation to the child.

I assume though that you are arguing that since we do not know why the child was originally taken from the grandmother and put in foster care with visitation rights for the biological family, we can’t justify getting the child back from this unknown psychic healer who has illegal custody of the child and has been abusing her by keeping her from learning the basic necessities of life in the United States (reading).