Good point, maybe she was a visitor at the house, or was just near the person at a store, or something. Of course, if she was a visitor then the person should know who she was.
I was thinking maybe she was another person on the list that they called and she recommended the friend and then went and claimed the child as that person, but then they would know who she was and how would she know the friend she named would agree to get the kid?
The police cleared needed to take some more information. How do they know her age though?
Did she give a birth date and the police are believeing that it is the real date? Did she give a birthdate that they expected and they are taking that as real? Are they estimating, because 46 is a pretty exact age? Did she show some form of ID with the birthdate and the officer didn't notice the different name? WTF is going on?