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As she sits in the Bucks County Prison on $1 million bail, what is Bonnie Sweeten thinking about? Her children? Why did she do what she did? Why create such an elaborate hoax? What made her do what she did? Why did she take Julia to Disney World, a place full of people who would definitely see the little girl whose picture was on the news all over the country? When did she dream this up?

Southampton is a small town in the south of Pennsylvania. A pretty area with nice homes, one of which Bonnie lived in with her second husband and three daughters. There has been some news that she may have stolen some money, but no one has filed any charges of theft against her yet. There’s been talk of domestic problems, which her husband has denied. The children look happy. The husband wants her back and said he will forgive her. Her ex-husband and Julia’s father said he can’t understand why she created this hoax as it’s just not like her to do something so strange. She has a lot of support from friends in the neighborhood who say she is very nice and well liked by all, including the black neighbors who are a bit taken back by the statement she made about being abducted by two black men. They can’t understand that as they say she has always treated them like the rest of her neighbors. So, we paint a picture of a small town woman, loved by all, who suddenly seemed to snap and create a hoax that had police scrambling to find her and her daughter.

Charged with two misdemeanors (filing a false police report and identity theft-she basically stole a co-workers licence and used that to get the plane tickets) Bonnie sits in jail. The prosecutor argued that she is a flight risk so the judge set a high bail. She will need 10% of that to get out. Will her family and friends help raise that money so she can come home? The judge did grant her supervised visits with her children.

Since she just had a baby 8 months ago, I wonder if the defense will use the baby as the reason. Women have done some really strange things undergoing post-partum depression. They have killed their children, beaten their husbands, and other things. This is all documented. So, I am thinking this is might be the reason Bonnie went to such extremes to create this hoax. If this isn’t the case, then she is smarter than people think and she needs to be punished for it. So we wait and see what will come about in the next few days and weeks with this story. Will she open up and tell all? That remains to be seen.