Agreed. Decent humans don’t put a 3 year old child outside in the middle of the night alone as punishment.
Bear in mind tracker dogs exhibited NO response at the site she was supposedly left - the tree. Suggests she wasn’t left there at all.
She was found approx half a mile away in a culvert. It’s highly unlikely she walked there alone in the dark. I suspect the t’storms last night may have helped uncover her so the dogs found her.
The truth will be interesting.