A family was left stunned after learning that the troubled 12-year-old girl they had adopted more than a year earlier was actually a 37-year-old woman.
The woman, whose name has not been released by police, was arrested in the city of Joinville, Brazil, after authorities uncovered a pattern of fraud across the country.
The case began when the suspect approached a church in Joinville and told a pastor she had escaped mistreatment in the northern state of Pará.
