So let's just think about this for a moment...
What if... from birth, Dee Dee latched onto the attention & benefits she received as a mother with an ill child. By the time Gypsy was in her critical years (age 2-5), the scam was already WELL underway. Gypsy was already being brought up as this sickly, frail, wonderful little angel girl with a big heart and a terribly heart-wrenching diagnosis for the future. It was already game-on.
For the next 20 years, this is how this girl was raised. She had her role and Dee Dee had hers, and that was that. There is no possible way on this planet or any other, that Gypsy would come out of this "normal". Living in a world of deception & role playing her entire life.
Not that I'm defending her in ANY way for what she did to her mother, but for anyone to expect her to just "walk out the door like any other 23 year old would" is rather unrealistic in this scenario. She is nothing like any other 23 year old. She doesn't think the way "normal" people think and this much is quite clear by the probable cause statement. Ethics and morals, if they have any place in her thought process at all, look nothing like what they'd look like to most other 23 year old young women.
Bottom line? IF this was in fact an ongoing scam all these years... Dee Dee broke this girl's mind by raising her to be donation-bait.