They are making and issue of her ethnicity because Ms. Toogood made an issue of her ethnicity. Trapped and desperate she played the "Victum Card" identifying herself as an "Irish Traveler" and now she must suffer the lashes of her own community for breaking "the code."

Sociologists/Pscychologists have reaped premium, raw material for analysis since the young child has been removed from the norms of her cult-like society and is available for "de-briefing."