Dr. Doogie
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The woman mentioned in my discussion with her that her mother was a "party girl", so it is possible that the woman was placed in a temporary foster situation while the mother was serving a short sentence on drug charges (or other substance abuse crimes).RobinH said:When she told me about this, she explained that for some unknown reason, she remembers being taken away from her mom and placed in some type of facility for awhile and then she was returned to her mother.
This is somewhat problematic: this means that for this woman to be Anna, not only would the mother and father be involved (not to mention any older siblings who would have been of an age that it would have registered that something was not right about the situation), it would also require complicity by a grandmother and uncle in the deception. I have always imagined that if Anna was taken by a couple, that the couple would have been isolated from any other family so as to not create any prying questions about where Anna had come from.RobinH said:She also remembers later that she had to go live with her grandmother for a period before being sent to an uncle's house, and then going home again.
Now, it is possible that entire families might be involved in criminal activities (including grandmothers and uncles), it does seem less likely that this would occur. I guess that it also would be possible that the couple may have "disappeared" from their family for a period of over five years, then re-established contact and introduced the family to their five year old daughter. However, this seems a stretch.