They had decided to not tell the humans what they had found. Not after their doctor examined
her. Not after they had heard her fantastic history. They decided the child would stay with them,
be raised like them.
She was five earth years old, but her mind was as developed as a 13 year old human. Her emotional state - unstable, but it was to be expected with one who was not only human, but also a sufferer of severe abuse.
Her legs had been broken multiple times, to where she could not walk. Rather she dragged
herself on her hands, attached to arms also twisted with multiple breaks and poor to no resetting.
A layer of what humans called "baby fat" covered her, yet the doctor said she had suffered from
severe malnutrition.
They had found her in an escape pod - from a pre-warp space transport. This child. She claimed that the leader of her people had decided to put her into it. A final solution to save her from the parents he had tried in every other way to stop abusing her. He ordered them, punished them when they were caught, threatened to kill them, and finally, when passing near, but not close enough to be detected, he put the child into the escape pod and sent her out.
It would be easy to repair her body. It would take many years to help heal her emotional scars.
Already she had shown bursts of violent temper and deep depression.
However, learning to control one's emotions was a Vulcan specialty...