I remember from my old surgery days a young girl who had sex one time only. Of course, sods law, she got pregnant. She was so ashamed of what had happened that she didn't tell anyone and had no antenatal care, nothing. When the time came and she went into labour at home her mum rang the emergency doctor saying her daughter had tummy pains. Off to hospital where they discover she's about to give birth
All hell then breaks loose when baby makes it's appearance. The midwives are told in no uncertain terms that if they come to the house they come in normal clothes. The end result of all this is baby is put up for adoption and mum is told she's off to America to live so the family don't have to endure her shame.
To be honest I think the family may have done something similar or worse to the baby if they thought they could have got away with it, things were that bad. They were of a culture where single mums with babies are just not the done thing.
This is why I can imagine the family doing something like this just as easily as a desperate mother who has been abandoned.