Want legal guardianship-mom giving up baby

A young woman (20 yrs) moved into my moms house 3 months ago. She left her home because she apparently is rebeling against her culture, she claims that she is not allowed to go out etc. had to be home. She was forced to marry her cousin at age 15, and got pregnant from her cousin and had her daughter, whom just turned 2 yrs in June. The woman acts like she has had a very tough life and claims that she hates *** because she was forced into it, hates her daughter because she came from ***, and hates *** again since thats how her daughter came about. She also lived with her husband and parents without needing to work and was provided with a car and all her needs and the baby's, but she would get physically abused from her husband and father. So she was trying to leave and my mother took her in. My mother became her babysitter from 6 am til 11 pm almost everyday this past summer. The baby's mom just wanted to have fun and go out, and promised my mom to pay her to care for the baby, and it wasn't til recently that she paid her, months later. When the baby cries she says I hate you or ignores her. She always finds somewhere to leave her if my mom can't take care of her, and even wanted to give her up to her parents, but they won't take her. She has asked my mom if she wants to keep the baby and says she'll sign anything and that her father will too. She is serious about it. She says that the father of the baby is taking her to Pakistan Oct 15 forever because he's marrying someone else and leaving forever. She says that she can stay if my mom wants her, that she will just leave her and go away. But if my mom keeps her we want it to be legal. My mom has grown very attached to the baby and the baby to my mom. Before she went to my moms house the baby didn't know how to watch cartoons or who Dora was, now thats all she loves. My mother has even bought her clothes because she doesn't have much, and it's not because the mother doesn't have money, in instances when we go shopping I tell the mother to buy this or that for the baby since she needs it, and she states she has no money. Then we go to another store for adults and all of a sudden she wants something and buys it. We don't want the baby to go with other people she doesn't know with a father that doesn't care about her. We don't know what steps to take...

To avoid a disaster years down the road, you need to legally adopt the child. Temporary custody or guardianship won't do in the long run. The problem is that this process takes time. Both parents have to surrender their parental rights (which isn't always as easy at it sounds) and the process can take months, if not years.

Not sure I understand the part about who is leaving for another country---what is the rush? Their leaving the child behind could allow you to file for emergency custody then try to adopt the child on the basis of abandonment of the natural parents but that, too, is risky. I would seek out an adoption agency or adoption attorney immediately before this situation becomes any more complex.

If you mean that the natural FATHER OF the child wants to take his child to another country, this means that he will not willingly relinquish his rights---and your mothers interest in the child would be secondary.

Is there a reason that no criminal charges have been filed about this rape of a fifteen year old child by a family member? Her being forced to marry a relative at fifteen sounds like it cannot be true from a legal standpoint---what court or jurisdiction would allow statutory rape by family member at age fifteen? Something there is amiss.

In any regard, if you can be more clear---your posting in one place says the bio parents would sign over their rights, then you say "he" want to take "her" (her who?) to Pakistan. If you can be more clear, I can be more precise.