“Pastor” Williams has since admitted to police that he drove her to the bus station, knowing she was running away from home without her parents’ knowledge. Lorenz knew she was on her way to come and stay at his house, and didn’t notify police until 2 weeks later, when he learned from Williams that police had gotten info on her whereabouts.
Legally, under Ohio law, Florida law, and federal law (since it was across state lines, and both pastors who were helping her knew that the plan was for her to cross state lines), this was a kidnapping.
I’ve never heard of the “Pakistan Daily”, but it sounds like some junky tabloid that invents a lot of embellishing details. Most of the information you cited there has not appeared anywhere else, and her parents have done a number of major media interviews.
As for the 2007 MySpace page, the bulk of the information I’ve seen indicates that she was managing to practice her Christianity just fine while living with her parents, until she got mixed up with this “pastor” Brian Williams, who’s barely an adult himself. As for the eye treatment issue, I’ve seen at least a couple of articles (e.g. the big Newsweek article on the case) that made it sound like it was confirmed that she did have treatment here, and that they were able to save her eye (which doctors in Sri Lanka had been planning to remove completely), but were not able to restore any vision to it. Presumably both the Ohio court and immigration officials will be demanding some firm evidence that she received treatment here.
I think in all likelihood, the Ohio courts will never return her to her family’s custody, given her age, and how vehemently she doesn’t want to go back to them. I doubt they’ll even need to find that there’s any threat to her safety to reach that decision — it can be supported just on the basis that she needs psychological treatment, and that it would be in the “best interests of the child” not to forcibly return her to her family.
Though if the family’s immigration status is what your sources are saying, the whole lot of them may be deported to Sri Lanka, and I personally wouldn’t be sorry to see all of them go. I think the girl is nuts and has gotten mixed up with some adult nuts who are exploiting her for their own purposes. And if the parents are knowingly here illegally, they can be sent home by slingshot for all I care. Emancipate her? She’ll be on our welfare rolls 5 minutes later. No thanks.