How terrifying for this child. Some one stole her from her home-regardless of what others think of that home, it is her home, with her mummy and daddy and baby brother and big sisters and everything she treasures- in the middle of the night, took her away and hid her in his house. God knows what he told her during those two days- but if he thought he was saving her he probably wasn't reassuring her she would see her mummy soon. He showered her, washed her hair and washed her toy dog. One of my kids gets really homesick- if she goes on school camp, she always takes my pillow, because it "smells of home". CC little dog wouldn't have even smelt right after he washed it. When he finally decides to take her home, he drops her, in the middle of the night, in the dark, on the wrong side of the road, in a carpark in a show ground, for her to find her own way home. I am 40, and I would be scared walking around in the middle of the night, when everything looks different. She is 3, and had just gone through what must have been a very traumatic 2 days.
This man sounds ill- there is no reason or rational behaviour here. However, I wonder at his true intention. It is a very convenient excuse to say "I felt sorry for her living conditions" when the family are being blasted by everyone, called druggies, allegations (completely so far unfounded) about drug debts, dad brawling in the street. If they don't know each other, how would he know of her living conditions? Sounds like a convenient after thought to me.