Without wanting to be cynical, this woman was pregnant and she had already given birth to a baby girl and that is considered by some to be the ultimate failure. Having female babies has cost more than one woman her life in this comunity. The fact that it took the husband more than twenty four hours to report the woman missing is suspicious. The alders don't seem to understand that it is the man's sperm that determines the sex of the baby and the woman cannot be faulted.