That’s just stupid. The girl is a ward of the state. How could the baby NOT be a ward of the state? By giving it to the other cultists?
By allowing it to remain in the default state, a ward of it’s mother.
That's a good point about why this was likely done. But there's no need to use term's like "stupid" when others just don't see things exactly the way you do. Calm down, there really isn't a reason to get so wound up here. We are just discussing this- and nothing we say here holds any water with the actual case either way.