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Not really, or at least it didn’t turn out that way.

Sure, three aunts took the girl. But two of them were arrested immediately.

And according to the article: “The girl somehow ended up with a family in Phoenix that had no relation to her biological family, authorities said.”

So the other Aunt wasn’t trying to raise the girl. You have to wonder how she ended up with this new family, who apparently KNEW about the subterfuge because they were hiding the girl, who wasn’t allowed to go to school.

So you have to speculate that the aunt sold the child to this couple.

So you have to speculate that the aunt sold the child to this couple.

Well, if we are going to invent scenarios out of whole cloth, then mine goes this way:

The aunts rescued the girl from the government appointed foster parents because they were worried about how she would be treated and raised. It was immediately known that the aunts grabbed the girl, and two of the aunts were consequently found and arrested for taking the girl, while the third aunt managed to get away. Once she escaped the government agents, the aunt placed the girl with a family she knew well who would care for the child in a manner she could trust. Let's say that the aunts and the family they placed the girl with were all evangelical Christians in the same denomination, who don't believe in public schools or many of the other anti-Christian elements of modern society. The last aunt knew that she couldn't raise the girl herself, because she was wanted by the law, so she hid the girl with a family she knew while she checked on her from afar.

Sound like a better story? The only thing we know for sure is that the government grabbed a child for an unknown reason and placed her with a family not related to her and unknown to her, while attempting to keep the girl's actual blood relatives from caring for her. We can speculate on all kinds of wild scenarios all day.