Well said, Big Mick.

Larry, you said: "...but when it leads to serial arrest of [their] family and deprivation of a child to her ethnic identity, that is the crime..."

Are you saying that other members of the family have been arrested in this case?

And how is temporarily being placed with another family deprivation of her ethnic identity? If she does think of herself as a traveller, as you attest, then she is unlikely to change her mind in the couple of weeks she is with a non-traveller family.

Of course, she's probably a little confused and scared, but that's not an ethnic trait, that's just the way a normal 4 year old would feel.