The Woman Who Faked Being 12 to Get Adopted in Joinville | #WeirdDarkNEWS

A couple in southern Brazil spent fourteen months raising a traumatized girl who had escaped an abusive home with no documents and no family, and the daughter they threw a birthday party for is a thirty-eight-year-old convicted of fraud and sitting in the women's prison in Joinville.

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